Also carr-. [Canadian F. caribou: prob. of native American origin.] The North-American Reindeer.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. II. v. 336. The north Americans also hunt it [the rein-deer] under the name of the caribou.
1848. Thoreau, Maine W., i. (1864), 11. Deer and carribou, or reindeer, are taken here in the winter.
1879. Ld. Dunraven, in 19th Cent., July, 63. The American Cariboo is identical with the reindeer of Europe.
