In forest law. one of the four evidences or presumptions where-by a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king’s deer in the forest. This was when a man wns found at hls standing in the forest with a cross-bow or long-bow bent, ready to shoot at any deer, or else standing close by a tree with grey-hounds in a leash, ready to slip. Cowell; Manwood
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)