n. A he-goat.n. The male of the deer, the antelope, the rabbit, or the hare: often used specifically of the male of the fallow-deer; a roebuck.n. A gay or fashionable man; a fop; a blood; a dandy.n. A male Indian.n. A male negro.n. The mark of a cuckold.To copulate, as bucks and does.To butt: a sense referred also to buck 4 (which see).To bend; buckle.To spring lightly.To make a violent effort to throw off a rider or pack, by means of rapid plunging jumps performed by springing into the air, arching the back, and coming down with the fore legs perfectly stiff, the head being commonly held as low as possible: said of a horse or a mule.To “kick”; make obstinate resistance or objection: as, to buck at improvements.To punish by 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, or attempt to throw (a rider), by bucking: as, the bronco bucked him off.n. A violent effort of a horse or mule to rid itself of its rider or burden; the act of bucking.To soak or steep (clothes) in lye, as in bleaching; wash in lye or suds; clean by washing and beating with a bat.n. Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed.n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye or suds; a wash.To beat.In mining and ore-dressing, to break into small pieces for jigging. The tool with which this is done is called a bucking-iron, and the support on which the ore is placed to be thus treated a bucking-plate.To push; thrust.To strike with the head; butt.n. The breast.n. The body of a wagon.n. A frame.n. The beech: a dialectal word used in literary English only in the compounds buck-mast and buckwheat; also in dialectal buck-log.n. An earthenware pot made of clay found in some parts of British Guiana. Also called buckpot.To make a noise in swallowing; gulp.n. A hollow sound which a stone makes when thrown into the water from a height.n. A kind of minute fungus (as supposed) infesting ill-kept dairies.n. The spittle-fly.To saw (felled trees) into logs.To bring or carry: as, to buck water or wood.To cut to a proper shape for a barrel-stave.To attempt to control (a bucking or obstreperous beast or a difficult affair or proposition): used only in the phrase to buck the tiger. See to fight the tiger, under fight.n. In poker, any article placed in the pool with the chips, to be taken down by the winner, indicating that when he deals it shall be a jack-pot.In football, to charge into (the line of opponents) with the ball.n. An apparatus used in the northwestern United States for gathering hay from the swath and transferring it directly to the foot of the stack. It consists of a coarse rake or cradle with horizontal teeth, supported at the two ends by wheels and propelled by horses at the rear. A drag-buck used on rougher ground is similar but without the wheels. The hay is elevated by means of a slide (see slide).To cut (wood) with a bucksaw.n. A dollar.
