fence month

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Noun

fence month (plural fence months)

(colloquial, dated) The month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.
- 1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. , London: M Flesher, for W Lee, and D Pakeman, →OCLC:
  Merfis vetitus, fence month, or defence month

References

“fence month”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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