Definition of buck

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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..

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Buck :: Buck (n.) The beech tree.
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..
Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..
Hemuse :: Hemuse (n.) The roebuck in its third year.
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..
Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..
Frangulin :: Frangulin (n.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin..
Jack :: Jack (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
Buck-eyed :: Buck-eyed (a.) Having bad or speckled eyes.
Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..
Prongbuck :: Prongbuck (n.) The pronghorn.
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Buckling :: Buckling (a.) Wavy; curling, as hair..
Straw :: Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Buckra :: Buckra (a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam..
Billet :: Billet (n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
Eelpot :: Eelpot (n.) A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.
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