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(verb) - (1) When a hart or stag breaks herd and draws to the covert, they say he "goes to his harbor," or "taketh his hold," or "he covereth;" and when he cometh out again that he "discovereth himself."
--H.J. Pye's The Sportsman's Dictionary, 1807
(2) Buck ague, nervous excitement felt by an inexperienced hunter at the sight of game; originally deer ague; also "buck fever."
--William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940
January 14, 2018