brocket

1) A stag in its second year, with its first horns which are straight, like daggers (OED).

1497 Sir John Hotham Knyght ... withine the Kingis Forest killid a broket, Pickering

1534 whether ... in the saide parke there were any tame brokett and two tame hyndes killyd, Wighill. It was possibly responsible for the by-name: 1390 Robertus Broket, draper, York.

dates 1390 1497 1534

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