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Definition: buck
buck
adj : of the lowest rank in a category;
“a buck private”
buck
n 1: a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end
elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting [syn:
vaulting horse
,
long horse]
2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn:
dollar,
dollar bill
,
one dollar bill,
clam]
3: United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as
a missionary in China (1892-1973) [syn:
Pearl Buck,
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
]
4: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn:
sawhorse,
horse,
sawbuck]
5: mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
buck
v 1: to strive with determination;
“John is bucking for a
promotion”
2: resist;
“buck the trend” [syn:
go against]
3: move quickly and violently;
“The car tore down the street”;
“He came charging into my office” [syn:
tear,
shoot,
shoot down
,
charge]
4: jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;
“the yung
filly bucked” [syn:
jerk,
hitch]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Buck
Buck
\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.
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2. To throw by bucking. See
Buck, v. i., 2.
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The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him
out of the saddle. --W. E.
Norris.
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Buck
\Buck\, n.
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on
a sawhorse.
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Buck
\Buck\ (b[u^]k), n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua,
he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W.
bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b[=u]za, Skr. bukka. [root]256. Cf.
Butcher, n.]
1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or
of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
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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. --Brande & C.
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2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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The leading bucks of the day. --Thackeray.
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3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
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Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names
of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
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Blue buck. See under
Blue.
Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (
Kobus ellipsiprymnus
). See Illust. of
Antelope.
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Buck
\Buck\ (b[u^]k), n. [Akin to LG. b["u]ke, Dan. byg, Sw.
byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F.
bu['e]e.]
1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of
bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Buck
\Buck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Bucked (b[u^]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n.
Bucking.] [OE. bouken; akin to LG. b["u]ken, Dan.
byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the
preceding noun.]
1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in
bleaching.
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2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by
beating them on stones in running water.
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3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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Buck
\Buck\ (b[u^]k), v. i.
1. To copulate, as bucks and does.
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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
\Buck\, n. [See
Beech, n.]
The beech tree. [Scot.]
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Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. --Johnson.
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