To copulate, as bucks and does.
To butt: a sense referred also to buck 4 (which see).
noun.
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.
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.
noun.
A he-goat.
noun.
The male of the deer, the antelope, the rabbit, or the hare: often used specifically of the male of the fallow-deer; a roebuck.
noun.
A gay or fashionable man; a fop; a blood; a dandy.
noun.
A male Indian.
noun.
A male negro.
noun.
The mark of a cuckold.
noun.
Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed.
noun.
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye or suds; a wash.
noun.
The breast.