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buck (n)
a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
a piece of paper money worth one dollar
United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
buck (v)
to strive with determination
resist
move quickly and violently
jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
buck (n.)
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.
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.
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
The beech tree.
buck (v. t.)
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.
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.
buck (v. i.)
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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