- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of
bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. - The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. - The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of
goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. - A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. - A male Indian or negro. - A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. - The beech tree.
2 . Buck
[ v. i.]
- To copulate, as bucks and does. - 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.
3 . Buck
[ v. t.]
- To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in
bleaching. - To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by
beating them on stones in running water. - To break up or pulverize, as ores. - 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. - To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
Meaning of 'Buck' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . buck
[ v]
Meaning (1): - resist
Example in sentence:
buck the trend
Meaning (2): - move quickly and violently
Example in sentence:
He came charging into my office;
The car tore down the street
Meaning (3): - to strive with determination
Example in sentence:
John is bucking for a promotion
Meaning (4): - jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched