Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A male Indian or negro. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue buck. See under Blue. --
Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a fellow; a guy. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The valved piston of a lifting pump. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine. [ PJC ]

6. (Mach.) a bucketfull. [ PJC ]

Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. --
To kick the bucket, to die. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The Ohio buckeye, or
Fetid buckeye, is Aesculus glabra. --
Red buckeye is Aesculus Pavia. --
Small buckeye is Aesculus paviflora. --
Sweet buckeye, or
Yellow buckeye, is Aesculus flava. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cant name for a native or resident of Ohio. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there. [ 1913 Webster ]

Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A washing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bucking iron (Mining), a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores. --
Bucking kier (Manuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. --
Bucking stool, a washing block. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see. Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To join in marriage. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. --
Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. --
Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. --
Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearing apparel, etc. Beck (Draper's Dict. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stiff; precise. “Buckram dames.” Brooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought,
An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Breeches made of buckskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have alluded to his buckskin. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]