buck

n. [ See Beech, n. ] The beech tree. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée. ] 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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. [ 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 ]

n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bucked p. pr. & vb. n. Bucking. ] [ OE. bouken; akin to LG. büken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun. ] 1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. [ 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 ]

n. [ OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend būza, Skr. bukka. √256. Cf. Butcher, n. ] 1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. [ 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 ]

n. 1. [ fr. Sp. vaquero. ]a cowboy, especially used of one who breaks broncos; -- used especially in California.
Syn. -- vaquero. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. [ See 1st Buck. ] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]