| Buck (buck) |
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| n. | (b k) |
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| Buck |
| [Akin to LG.
büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf.
It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.] |
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the
operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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To soak,
steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later
usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
To break up or pulverize, as
ores.
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The male of
deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and
rabbits.
A gay, dashing young fellow] a fop; a
dandy.
A male Indian or negro.
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| Buck (buck) |
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| v. i. | (bk) |
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| Buck |
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To copulate, as bucks and does.
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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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.
To throw by bucking. See Buck, v.
i., 2.
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A frame on which firewood is
sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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