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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1851-1898
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HEAVIER, n. A sexually undeveloped male deer, which gen. grows to a greater size and weight than the normal animal.Sc. 1851 J. Colquhoun Moor & Loch 40–41:
Ox-deer, or "heaviers," as the foresters call them, are wilder than either hart or hind. . . . Sometimes a stag, neither a rig nor a heavier, is hornless.Arg. 1898 N. Munro J. Splendid x.:
Light-coloured yeld hinds and hornless "heaviers" (or winterers) the size of oxen.
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