Buck: English to English |
Buck (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. |
Buck (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. |
Buck (n.) A male Indian or negro. |
Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
Buck (n.) The beech tree. |
Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. |
Buck (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. |
Buck (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does. |
Buck (v. i.) 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. |
Buck (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores. |
Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. |
Buck (v. t.) 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. |
Buck (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. |