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jumping deer
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Obs.
the pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, of the southern prairies.
See: antelope(def. 1)
Quotations
1806
Herds of cabbrie or jumping deer were always in sight.
1908
The jumping deer [Henday, 1754] describes as a new kind of goat.
1921
They were soon out upon the bald plains, where they were forced to use "buffalo chips" for fuel, and where they saw many "jumping deer," i.e., antelope.
2
the Rocky Mountain mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus hemionus.
See: mule deer
Quotations
1819
One of these [is] designated the jumping deer. . . .
1860
My provision has . . . been almost as varied as it could well be, consisting at times of moose, red deer, jumping deer . . . and almost every species of the feathered tribe.
1937
. . . a jumping deer was caught [in the mire] and slowly sank, struggling to the last to keep his head above water. . . .