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{Buck saw}, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on
a sawhorse.

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{Buck mast}, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. --Johnson.

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2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] --Shak.

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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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2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by
beating them on stones in running water.

3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

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2. To throw by bucking. See {Buck}, v. i., 2.

The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him
out of the saddle. --W. E.
Norris.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

The leading bucks of the day. --Thackeray.

3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]

Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names
of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.

{Blue buck}. See under {Blue}.

{Water buck}, a South African variety of antelope ({Kobus
ellipsiprymnus}). See Illust. of {Antelope}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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