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Buck
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
(2):
(n.) The beech tree.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v. i.) 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.
(5):
(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
(6):
(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
(7):
(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
(8):
(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(9):
(n.) A male Indian or negro.
(10):
(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(11):
(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
(12):
(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
(13):
(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
(14):
(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Buck'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/buck.html. 1828.
