Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A percoid fish, the Acerina cernua. More generally called
ruff or pope. Seeruff . - noun A common name among hunters of the black-tailed deer or mule-deer, Cariacus macrotis (see
mule-deer ) - noun of the Columbian deer, C. columbianus: in both cases in distinction from the common or white-tailed deer, C. virginianus.
- noun In India, a name of the chikara or ravine-deer, Tragops bennetti.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish; the ruff or pope.
- noun (Zoöl.) The black-tailed deer (
Cervus Columbianus orCariacus Columbianus ) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. SeeMule deer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fish : theruff orpope . - noun The black-tailed
deer (Cervus or Cariacus columbianus) ofCalifornia andOregon . - noun The
mule deer of the Rocky Mountains.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do you think that those that are in blacktail country, are hunting the hardest to get the trophy deer?
Hunting Blacktail 2009
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If you polled B&C whitetail, mule, and blacktail entries, I bet the .270 and 30'06 would be 1 and 2 and vice versa, with the .308 a close 3rd.
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We have several deer mounts ranging in size from spike (first recurve kill) to a large 3 x 4 blacktail.
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We have several deer mounts ranging in size from spike (first recurve kill) to a large 3 x 4 blacktail.
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Still trying for my first elk, and I would love to shoot a blacktail.
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Probably a bobcat gettin a blacktail out in the west.
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If you polled B&C whitetail, mule, and blacktail entries, I bet the .270 and 30'06 would be 1 and 2 and vice versa, with the .308 a close 3rd.
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Karl Wolfe had a half day to hunt for blacktail deer, but the outing ended just 15 minutes after he left his truck.
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Probably a bobcat gettin a blacktail out in the west.
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Still trying for my first elk, and I would love to shoot a blacktail.
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