Brewer's: Spaie

A red deer of the third year.

“The young male is called in the first yeere a calfe, in the second a broket, the third a spaie, the fourth a stagon or stag, the fifth a great stag, the sixth an hart, and so foorth unto his death.” —Harrison.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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