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Buck   /bək/   Listen
Buck

noun
1.
A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting.  Synonyms: long horse, vaulting horse.
2.
A piece of paper money worth one dollar.  Synonyms: clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill.
3.
United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973).  Synonyms: Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck.
4.
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed.  Synonyms: horse, sawbuck, sawhorse.
5.
Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope).
verb
(past & past part. bucked; pres. part. bucking)
1.
To strive with determination.
2.
Resist.  Synonym: go against.
3.
Move quickly and violently.  Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear.  "He came charging into my office"
4.
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.  Synonyms: hitch, jerk.



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"Buck" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind Lamech goes out hunting, with bow and arrow, and shoots Cain, accidentally, in a bush. When Cain falls, Lamech appeals to his servant, to know what is it that he has shot. The servant declares that it is "hairy, rough, ugly, and a buck-goat of the night." Cain, however, discovers himself before he dies. There is something rudely dreary and graphic about his description of his loneliness, bare as it is of any recommendation ...
— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins

... ladies gay, The mist has left the mountain gray, Springlets in the dawn are steaming, Diamonds on the brake are gleaming: And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... monstrous congenital hypertrophy of the superior lip in an infant of eight months. Buck successfully treated by surgical operations a case of congenital hypertrophy of the under lip, and Detmold mentions a similar result in a young lady with hypertrophy of the lip and lower part of the nose. Murray reports an undescribed ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... most unfortunate with animals. He was hated by them all. When he went near horses they would kick, buck and neigh as if a wolf had been at hand; mules stampeded at his sight; cats bolted as if he were about to beat them; and camels were restless and made most fearful noises of disapproval and distress at his approach. When he tried ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... cole mawnin'!" I looked at the darkey in bitterness of heart, and couldn't help thinking that it was all-fired mean, when a poor little sick soldier was not allowed to buy a drink of whisky, while a great big buck nigger roustabout had it handed out to him with cheerfulness and alacrity. But the orders forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors to soldiers were all right, and an imperative military necessity. If the men had been allowed unlimited access to whisky, ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell


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