deermeat

deermeat (uncountable)

1. Rare form of deer meat.
   • 1875, George James Atkinson Coulson, Harwood: A Novel, page 51:

     At that instant my attention was attracted by the cry of the hounds, and I was about to hasten back to my stand, when the Indian reappeared, with a piece of smoked deermeat in his hand.

   • 1947, Edward Havill, Big Ember: A Novel, page 53:

     Endre had some deermeat there, too, from a buck Arne killed.

   • 2010, Robert Moss, Fire Along the Sky, page 117:

     A slab of deermeat was broiling on a spit over the fire.

• reteamed