ˈdeer-hair, deer's hair
1. The hair of deer.
| 1494 Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 19 Cushions, stuffed with Horse hair..Deers-hair, and Goats-hair. |
2. The common name in Scotland and north of England of a small moorland species of club-rush, Scirpus cæspitosus.
| 1772–8 Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) II. 1080 (App.) Scirpus cæspitosus Deer's Hair Scotis australibus. a 1802 Leyden Ld. Soulis lxvi, And on the spot, where they boil'd the pot, The spreat and the deer-hair ne'er shall grow. 1816 Scott Old Mort. i, Moss, lichen, and deer-hair are fast covering those stones. 1853 G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Borders 203 Deer's Hair. Abundantly on all our moors. |