Buck Synonyms & Definitions

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• BuckDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
2. (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
3. (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
4. (v. i.) 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.
5. (n.) A male Indian or negro.
6. (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
7. (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
8. (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
9. (v. t.) 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.
10. (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
11. (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
12. (n.) The beech tree.
13. (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
14. (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

• BuckerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
2. (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.
3. (n.) One who bucks ore.