stonebuck
(ˈstəʊnbʌk)
Also 7–8 -bock.
[f. stone n. + buck n.1; found in OE., but formed afresh in the 16th c. after the Ger. form.]
1. The ibex: = steinbock.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 68 Hic cynyps þes stanbucca. 1585 Higins Junius' Nomencl. 51/2 Tragelaphus,..a stone⁓buck or goathart. 1668 Charleton Onomast. 7 Capra Ibex..The Stone-bock. 1749 West Odes Pindar, etc. (1753) I. 253 The..branching Stone-buck bearded like a Goat. 1910 A. Hilliers Master Girl ii. 59 She could see that chamois and stone-buck had come down. |
2. = steenbok. rare—0. (Perh. an error.)
| 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., Stone-buck, the steinbok [1833 steenbok], an animal of the antelope kind. |