Anglicized form of prec.
1775. Phil. Trans., LXVI. 311. They informed us, they had seen great flocks of the spring bucks.
1824. Burchell, Trav., I. 290. Numbers of that beautiful antelope, the Springbuck,… were seen.
1857. Livingstone, Missionary Trav. S. Africa, v. 103. We saw the last portion of a migration of springbucks.
1887. Rider Haggard, Jess, x. A couple of dozen or so of graceful yellow springbuck.
attrib. and Comb. 1895. J. G. Millais, Breath fr. Veldt, 23. The most … successful springbuck shooter of Beaufort West. Ibid., 24. A springbuck hunt.
