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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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... cook, some look after the mules and donkeys, others cut boughs for huts and fencing, while the Beloochs are supposed to guard the camp, but prefer gossiping and brightening their arms, while Captain Grant kills two buck ...
— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston
... Yorkshire. Though they have comed down in the world, and the last of the Bumpuses—that's me—is takin' a pleasure trip round the world before the mast, I won't stand by and hear my name made game of, d'ye see; and I'd have ye to know, farther, my buck, that the Bumpuses has a pecooliar gift for fightin', and although you are a strappin' young feller, you'd better not cause me for ...
— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne
... others are the hands, he is the head, who beneath this strange anonymity calmly works at the destruction of France. I mean to strike at that head, and for this I want your help—through him afterwards I can reach the rest of the gang: he is a young buck in English society, of that I feel sure. Find that man for me, citoyenne!" he urged, ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... congregation sat on the floor on mats, the women on one side, the men on the other, all rigged out to kill—the women with dresses and trade hats, the men in white jackets and shirts. The hymn was over; the pastor, a big buck Kanaka, was in the pulpit, preaching for his life; and by the way he wagged his hand, and worked his voice, and made his points, and seemed to argue with the folk, I made out he was a gun at the business. Well, he looked up suddenly and caught ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... it would be found. And then I had to watch lest it was found by the wrong sort. But luckily Mr. Shylock had sprung a substantial reward, and all came right in the end. He sent his doctor to blazes, and had a buck feed and lashings on the night it was recovered. The hunting man and I were invited to the thanksgiving spread; but I wouldn't budge from the diet, and he was ashamed to unless I did. It made a coolness between us, and now I doubt if we shall ever have that enormous ...
— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung


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