Bucking

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Given to bucking; addicted to the practice of bucking: as, a bucking horse.
  • noun. A vice peculiar to the horses of Mexico, Texas, and the western American plains, of Spanish descent, and to mules. See buck, verb
  • noun. The act or process of steeping or soaking in lye or caustic soda, as in bleaching cotton thread, etc.
  • noun. The act of breaking or pulverizing ore.
  • noun. The act of copulating, as bucks and does.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
  • noun. A washing.
  • noun. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
  • noun. a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores.
  • noun. a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching.
  • noun. a washing block.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of buck.
  • noun. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
  • noun. The liquid used in this process.
  • noun. A washing.
  • noun. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
  • noun.  : The act of kicking both hind legs upward (See buck).
  • Word Usage
    "I was doing what they called bucking, where your body is moving on the table."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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    washing  
    verb-stem
    buck