Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The killing of deer: as, “a wanton cervicide,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.

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  • noun rare The killing of deer.

Etymologies

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Latin cervus deer + caedere to kill.

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  • Akin to Bambicide. However, in the abbreviated jargon of railroad telegraphers, cervicide meant "Let cars go forward as consigned". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.

    January 21, 2013