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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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... Mack, Mrs. Henry Stanislawsky, Professor Romanzo Adams, Judge William P. Seeds, Assemblyman Alceus F. Price, J. A. Buchanan, Mrs. Frank Page, Mrs. Frank R. Nicholas, who was made secretary, and J. Holman Buck, who was elected permanent chairman. A telegram of greeting was ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
... ready a flat circular plate of tin, which must be laid on your griddle, or in the oven of your stove, and well greased with butter. Pour on it a large ladle-full of the batter, and bake it as you would a buck-wheat cake, taking care to have it of a good shape. It will not require turning. Bake as many of these cakes as you want, laying each on a separate plate. Then spread jelly or marmalade all over the top of each cake, and lay another upon ...
— Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats • Miss Leslie
... replied Uncle Jim. "One of the boys here died about a month ago; his name was Tom Buck. He was a good fellow and did many kind things for me. Bury ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... Raven. "I telephoned her. Buck up, old man. Here's another chance for you, don't you see? We're in a nasty hole, Tira and incidentally Nan and I. Play the game, old son, and ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... horn. General McMaster writes, referring to the latter opinion: "Both he and I know of one 16 inches in length, shot by a well-known South Indian sportsman of the Madras Civil Service, and in February 1869 at Ootacamund, he and I measured the horn of a magnificent buck ibex, shot within 15 or 20 miles of that place. The exact measurements of this mighty horn were 17 inches in length, and 9-3/4 ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale


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