Stonebuck

Also 7–8 -bock. [f. STONE sb. + BUCK sb.¹; found in OE., but formed afresh in the 16th c. after the Ger. form.]

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1. The ibex: = STEINBOCK.

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c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., ix. (Z.), 68. Hic cynyps þes stanbucca.

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1585. Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 51/2. Tragelaphus,… a stonebuck or goathart.

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1668. Charleton, Onomast., 7. Capra Ibex … The Stone-bock.

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1749. West, Odes Pindar, etc. (1753), I. 253. The … branching Stone-buck bearded like a Goat.

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1910. A. Hilliers, Master-Girl, ii. 59. She could see that chamois and stone-buck had come down.

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2. = STEENBOK. rare^–0. (Perh. an error.)

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1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., Stone-buck, the steinbok [1863 steenbok], an animal of the antelope kind.

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