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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Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.
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..
Cascara Sagrada :: Cascara sagrada () Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative..
Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston..
Parbuckling :: Parbuckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parbuckl.
Buckish :: Buckish (a.) Dandified; foppish.
Brank :: Brank (n.) Buckwheat.
Chiltern Hundreds :: Chiltern Hundreds () A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats..
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..
Buck :: Buck (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does..
Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
Pronghorn :: Pronghorn (n.) An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
Lower :: Lower (a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag..
Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
Infibulation :: Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock..
Bucking :: Bucking (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used..
Bucktooth :: Bucktooth (n.) Any tooth that juts out.
Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
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