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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..

Stonechat :: Stonebuck (n.) See Steinbock.

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

Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..

Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..

Roe :: Roe (n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.

Hemuse :: Hemuse (n.) The roebuck in its third year.

Buckskin :: Buckskin (n.) The skin of a buck.

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

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)..

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..

Buckling :: Buckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buckl.

Buckstall :: Buckstall (n.) A toil or net to take deer.

Sorel :: Sorel (n.) A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.

Buck Bean :: Buck bean () A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

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