Definition of buck

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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..

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Water Buck :: Water buck () A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok..
Bucker :: Bucker (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.
Cuvette :: Cuvette (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table..
Pricket :: Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..
Bucker :: Bucker (n.) One who bucks ore.
Buckram :: Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
Buckie :: Buckie (n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
Attire :: Attire (n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck..
Leg :: Leg (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
Sludger :: Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Rhamnaceous :: Rhamnaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus)..
Buck :: Buck (n.) A male Indian or negro.
Roebuck :: Roebuck (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds..
Castigatory :: Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket..
Shield :: Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler..
Hemuse :: Hemuse (n.) The roebuck in its third year.
Roe :: Roe (n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.
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