Definition of "brocket" [brock•et]

• A two-year-old red deer with its first horns. (noun)
• Any of several small South American deer of the genus Mazama, having short unbranched horns. (noun)

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• "And great as is the hide of a yearling ox or stag, which huntsmen call a brocket, so great in extent was the fleece all golden above."
• "As stated by Stempell, this animal from the character of its horns is probably to be identified as a brocket, though there is nothing to preclude its being a young spike buck of some species of _Odocoileus."
• "The stag, when young, is sometimes called a brocket, and when it is more than six years old it is called a hart, and, if it belongs to a royal chase, a hart-royal."