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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n.
     A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on
     which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called
     also buck, and sawbuck.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\, v. t.
     1. (Mil.) 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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     2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
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              The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him
              out of the saddle.                    --W. E.
                                                    Norris.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\, n.
     A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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     Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on
        a sawhorse.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\ (b[u^]k), n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua,
     he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W.
     bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b[=u]za, Skr. bukka. [root]256. Cf.
     Butcher, n.]
     1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or
        of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
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     Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year;
           a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore
           in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth;
           and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow
           deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is
           termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is
           called a hind. --Brande & C.
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     2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
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              The leading bucks of the day.         --Thackeray.
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     3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
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     Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names
           of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
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     Blue buck. See under Blue.
  
     Water buck, a South African variety of antelope ({Kobus
        ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\ (b[u^]k), n. [Akin to LG. b["u]ke, Dan. byg, Sw.
     byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F.
     bu['e]e.]
     1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of
        bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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     2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucked (b[u^]kt); p. pr. &
     vb. n. Bucking.] [OE. bouken; akin to LG. b["u]ken, Dan.
     byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the
     preceding noun.]
     1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in
        bleaching.
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     2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by
        beating them on stones in running water.
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     3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\ (b[u^]k), v. i.
     1. To copulate, as bucks and does.
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     2. 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Buck \Buck\, n. [See Beech, n.]
     The beech tree. [Scot.]
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     Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. --Johnson.
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