buck

1. n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. Source: opted

2. n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. Source: opted

3. v. t. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. Source: opted

4. v. t. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. Source: opted

5. v. t. To break up or pulverize, as ores. Source: opted

6. n. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. Source: opted

7. n. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. Source: opted

8. n. A male Indian or negro. Source: opted

9. v. i. To copulate, as bucks and does. Source: opted

10. v. i. 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. Source: opted

11. v. t. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in 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. Source: opted

12. v. t. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. Source: opted

13. n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Source: opted

14. n. The beech tree. Source: opted

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