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Buck   /bək/   Listen
noun
Buck  n.  
1.
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
2.
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. (Obs.)


Buck  n.  
1.
The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind.
2.
A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. "The leading bucks of the day."
3.
A male Indian or negro. (Colloq. U.S.) Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
Blue buck. See under Blue.
Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus).


Buck  n.  A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.


Buck  n.  The beech tree. (Scot.)
Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree.


verb
Buck  v. t.  (past & past part. bucked; pres. part. bucking)  
1.
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; a process in bleaching.
2.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
3.
(Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.


Buck  v. t.  
1.
(Mil.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
2.
To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. "The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle."


Buck  v. i.  
1.
To copulate, as bucks and does.
2.
To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; said of a vicious horse or mule.





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"Buck" Quotes from Famous Books



... the chestnut was mounted he reared, and indulged in two or three "buck-jumps" that would have made a weaker man tremble for his back-bone, and then kicked furiously; but Guy seemed to take it all as a matter of course, sitting square and erect; all he did was to drive the sharp rowels in repeatedly, ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... crippled by arthritis, hobbling out into the desert in hopes that his "friend who talks to the Martians" could get them to cure him on their next trip. I've seen pensioners, who needed every buck they had, shell out money to "help buy radio equipment" to contact some planet to find out how they'd solved their economic problems. I saw a little old lady in a many times mended dress put down a ten dollar bill to help promote a "peace campaign" backed by the Venusians. ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt
... ye air," said the old man, slowly, "I'm a-thinkin' yu'll have to buck up ag'in Sherd Raines, fer ef I hain't like a goose a-pickin' o' grass by moonshine, Sherd air atter the gal fer hisself, not fer the Lord. Yes," he continued, after a short, dry laugh; "'n' mebbe ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... had never been before. Tom must cover all his boyhood ramblings, catch trout again on Bull Creek, shoot quail over Walcott's Prairie, get a deer on Round Mountain. That deer was a cause of pain and shame to Frederick. What if it was closed season? Tom had triumphantly brought home the buck and gleefully called it sidehill-salmon when it was served and ...
— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London
... incline, keeping in the shadow of great rocks and broom wherever it was possible. 'Tis not in nature to walk unmoved across an open where every bush may hide a sentinel who will let fly at one as gladly as at a fat buck—yes, and be sure of thirty thousand pounds if he hit the right mark. I longed for eyes in the back of my head, and every moment could feel the lead pinging its way between my ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine


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