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jumping deer

• 1 Obs. the pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, of the southern prairies.

  See also: antelope (def. 1)  

  • 1806  (1897)  Herds of cabbrie or jumping deer were always in sight.
  • 1908  The jumping deer [Henday, 1754] describes as a new kind of goat.
  • 1921  They were soon out upon the bald plains, where they were forced to use "buffalo chips" for fuel, and where they saw many "jumping deer," i.e., antelope.

• 2 the Rocky Mountain mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus hemionus.

  See also: mule deer  

  • 1819  (1922)  One of these [is] designated the jumping deer. . . .
  • 1860  My provision has . . . been almost as varied as it could well be, consisting at times of moose, red deer, jumping deer . . . and almost every species of the feathered tribe.
  • 1937  . . . a jumping deer was caught [in the mire] and slowly sank, struggling to the last to keep his head above water. . . .