Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The killing of deer: as, “a wanton cervicide,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.
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- noun rare The
killing ofdeer .
Etymologies
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Latin cervus deer + caedere to kill.
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Examples
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I should certainly have committed cervicide had any weapon been at hand.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
hernesheir commented on the word cervicide
Akin to Bambicide. However, in the abbreviated jargon of railroad telegraphers, cervicide meant "Let cars go forward as consigned". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 21, 2013