Buck

[bʌk]

Definition

(noun.) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope).

(noun.) United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973).

(verb.) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; 'the yung filly bucked'.

(verb.) resist; 'buck the trend'.

(verb.) to strive with determination; 'John is bucking for a promotion'.

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Definition

(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

(n.) A male Indian or negro.

(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

(n.) The beech tree.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Male (of the deer, sheep, goat, rabbit, and hare).[2]. Blade, spark, gallant; gay, dashing fellow.

Editor: Miles

Definition

n. the male of the deer goat hare and rabbit—often used specifically of the male of the fallow-deer: a dashing young fellow.—v.i. (of a horse or mule—a Buck′jumper) to attempt to throw by a series of rapid jumps into the air coming down with the back arched the head down and the forelegs stiff: (U.S.) to make obstinate resistance to any improvements.—ns. Buck′een a poor Irish gentleman without means to support his gentility; Buck′-eye the American horse-chestnut; Buck′horn the material of a buck's horn; Buck′-hound a small kind of staghound used for hunting bucks; Buck′-shot a large kind of shot used in shooting deer; Buck′skin a soft leather made of deerskin or sheepskin: a strong twilled woollen cloth cropped of nap and carefully finished.—adj. made of the skin of a buck.—n.pl. Buck′skins breeches made usually of the cloth not of the leather.—ns. Buck′thorn a genus of shrubs the berry of which supplies the sap-green used by painters; Buck′-tooth a projecting tooth.

v.t. to soak or steep in lye a process in bleaching.—n. lye in which clothes are bleached.—n. Buck′-bas′ket a basket in which clothes are carried to be bucked.

Checker: Sandra