fence month

English

Noun

fence month (plural fence months)

1. (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[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] 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.