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Roebuck

Roebuck \Roe"buck`\, n. [1st roe + buck.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European and Asiatic deer ( Capreolus capr[ae]a) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roebuck

c.1200, from roe (n.2) + buck (n.1). Similar formation in Dutch reebok, German Rehbock, Danish raabuck.

Wiktionary
roebuck

n. A male roe deer.

WordNet
roebuck

n. male roe deer

Gazetteer
Roebuck, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina
Population (2000): 1725
Housing Units (2000): 783
Land area (2000): 4.275658 sq. miles (11.073903 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.275658 sq. miles (11.073903 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61720
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.884195 N, 81.960597 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29376
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Roebuck, SC
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Wikipedia
Roebuck

Roebuck may refer to:

People
  • Alvah C. Roebuck (1864–1948), American businessman and co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
  • Daniel Roebuck (born 1963), American television film actor, writer and producer
  • Gene Roebuck (born 1947), American college sports coach
  • Henry Disney Roebuck, builder of Midford Castle
  • John Roebuck (1718–1794), English inventor
  • John Arthur Roebuck (1802–1879), British parliamentarian
  • Joseph Roebuck (born 1985), English swimmer
  • Marty Roebuck (born 1965), former Australian rugby union footballer
  • Neil Roebuck (born 1969), rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s
  • Peter Roebuck (1956–2011), English-Australian cricketer and journalist
  • Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), American gospel and R&B musician
Places
  • Roebuck, Alabama, USA
  • Roebuck, South Carolina, USA
  • Roebuck Bay, Western Australia
  • Roebuck Castle, home of the School of Law at University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Roebuck, a townland in south county Dublin—see List of townlands of County Dublin
Other
  • HMS Roebuck, the name of 14 ships of the Royal Navy
  • The Roebuck, a Grade II listed public house at 50 Great Dover Street, Borough, London

Usage examples of "roebuck".

Hume, Roebuck, and Clay, noticed at the opening of this article, were brought forward this session.

The Roebuck was one of those few country pubs that opened fairly promptly at six of an evening, but it relied for its main trade on the gourmet menu from about half-past seven till ten.

We were merely one slice of her life on Friday evenings: a slice lasting an hour - twice as long when we all dined at the Roebuck once a month.

Next Friday, in the Roebuck, we had already scrutinized the menu through in the bar, and ordered.

We would have to abandon the Roebuck in the morning, abandon and never come back.

We parted and drove off from the Roebuck through the dead, cold countryside.

Hume, Roebuck, Buller, and other liberal representatives of Great Britain were also its strenuous opponents.

Danubex for a sum of money that has made Roebuck, the owner, a millionaire overnight.

Geoff ninety percent of what Sears, Roebuck wanted for insta fling the rebuilt engine, and was honest enough to tell Geoff that he was glad to have the work.

I finished the short version, some Oak Bluffs cops, Sid Roebuck, and another DIA man were there, so I got to tell the whole story again.

In addition to Arnold, the jurors were Peggy Roebuck, Joan Sprinkle, Vicki Stoll, Barbara White, Sharon French, Peggy Van Hoozer, Howard McNatt, William Billingsly, John Throgmorton, Jennifer Dacus, and Oma Dooley.

Sears and Roebuck pictures of pretty clothes and hats and gold necklaces?

Where the red deer herd together, Kill for us a famous roebuck, Kill for us a deer with antlers!

Aurore was delighted to find a vast park with thickets in which there were roebucks bounding about.

Instantly there rose by the hundred roebucks and guanacos, like those that had swept over them that terrible night on the Cordilleras, but the timid creatures were so frightened that they were all out of gunshot in a twinkling.