Definition of buck

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Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

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Buck :: Buck (n.) The beech tree.
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Leash :: Leash (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general..
Etaac :: Etaac (n.) The blue buck.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) 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..
Shot :: Shot (n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot..
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) 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..
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket..
Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..
Buckboard :: Buckboard (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
Dandified :: Dandified (a.) Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
Pail :: Pail (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover..
Pricket :: Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force..
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Leche :: Leche (n.) See water buck, under 3d Buck..
Roedeer :: Roedeer (n.) The roebuck.
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