Obs. exc. Hist. [f. BUCK sb.1 + STALL.] A large net for catching deer.
1503. Act 19 Hen. VII., xi. The greatest Destruction of Red Deer … is with Nets called Deer-hays and Buck-stalls.
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iii. (1772), II. 131. Knit thy torne Buck-stals with well-twisted threds.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 317. Sir Henry pitcht a Buckstall (wherewith he used to take Deer in the Forest) in the narrowest place of the Marsh.
1870. Edgar, Runnymede, 156. We may be dealt with as deer in a buckstall.
