Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse that bucks.
- noun A bent piece of wood, especially that on which a slaughtered animal is suspended.
- noun A horse's hind leg.
- noun In mining: One who bucks or bruises ore.
- noun A flat broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- noun A cowboy.
- noun A machine for shaping staves for barrels or kegs.
- noun One who saws felled trees into logs. Also called a cross-cutter.
- noun One who brings or carries. See
buck , transitive verb, 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) One who bucks ore.
- noun A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- noun A horse or mule that bucks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
horse thatbucks
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Examples
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I've seen him mount a hostile "bucker," and, clinching his italic legs around the body of his adversary, ride him till the blood would burst from
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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After winning ten times in succession the luck turned, and the unfortunate "bucker" was cleared out not only of his gains, but of his original investment, which may be placed roughly at twenty thousand dollars.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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I would rather sit on the back of the worst kind of bucker than jump over those waves again.
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Bag more deer use acorn rage ... draw em in with peanut bucker ... use deer cane and you'll have em lickin stumps and pawin the ground.
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Bag more deer use acorn rage ... draw em in with peanut bucker ... use deer cane and you'll have em lickin stumps and pawin the ground.
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•The trend-bucker: ESPN's coverage was up slightly from last year, but down slight from 2007.
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And now, for those anxious moments when your support group is on vacation, there is a new variety of bedside bucker-uppers called affirmation books.
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Lexi said in her hoarse voice, extracting Hadley from his car seat without a single scream or struggle with a recalcitrant bucker.
Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005
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Lexi said in her hoarse voice, extracting Hadley from his car seat without a single scream or struggle with a recalcitrant bucker.
Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005
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Lexi said in her hoarse voice, extracting Hadley from his car seat without a single scream or struggle with a recalcitrant bucker.
Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005
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