BUCK
\bˈʌk], \bˈʌk], \b_ˈʌ_k]\
Definitions of BUCK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
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a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
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of the lowest rank in a category; "a buck private"
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move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
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resist; "buck the trend"
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a piece of paper money worth one dollar
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jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"
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to strive with determination; "John is bucking for a promotion"
By Princeton University
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a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
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a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
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(United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar
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of the lowest rank in a category; "a buck private"
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move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
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resist; "buck the trend"
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to strive with determination; "John is bucking for a promotion"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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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.
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A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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To copulate, as bucks and does.
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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.
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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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To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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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.
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A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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To copulate, as bucks and does.
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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.
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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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To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.
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A male Indian or negro.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The male of the fallow deer, goat, rabbit, hare, etc.; a gay fellow; a male indian or negro.
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To spring with a quick plunging leap; said of a horse.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The male of the deer, goat, hare, and rabbit: a dashing young fellow.
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To soak or steep in lye, a process in bleaching.
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Lye in which clothes are bleached.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To spring viciously from the ground, as a horse or mule; throw (a rider) by vicious plunges.
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The male of various animals, as of deer.
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A dashing fellow.
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The act of bucking.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin, German] Lye in which cloth in soaked in bleeching; the liquor in which clothes are washed;—the cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] The male of the fallow deer, goat, sheep, rabbit, and hare;—a fop; a dandy; a gay dashing young fellow.
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