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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Ox of the Deluge

The Irish name for a great black deer, probably the Mcgaceros Hiber nicus, or Irish elk, now extinct.

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