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Buck

noun

1.

A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting. Synonyms: long horse, vaulting horse.

2.

A piece of paper money worth one dollar. Synonyms: clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill.

3.

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973). Synonyms: Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck.

4.

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed. Synonyms: horse, sawbuck, sawhorse.

5.

Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope).

verb

(past & past part. bucked; pres. part. bucking)

1.

To strive with determination.

2.

Resist. Synonym: go against.

3.

Move quickly and violently. Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear. "He came charging into my office"

4.

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched. Synonyms: hitch, jerk.

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"Buck" Quotes from Famous Books

... not patience to try that of the natives, so that we came back without killing anything, or having had any occasion to exercise our forbearance. The Raja's people, as soon as we left them, went about their sport after their own fashion, and brought us a fine buck antelope after breakfast. They have a bullock trained to go about the fields with them, led at a quick pace by a halter, with which the sportsman guides him, as he walks along with him by the side opposite to that facing the deer he is in pursuit of. He goes round the deer as he grazes ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... jasmine among cultivated plants, and the various species of ash (Fraxinus), and the pretty fringe-tree (Chionanthus) (Fig. 122, A), often cultivated for its abundant white flowers. The other families are the Gentianaceae including the true gentians (Gentiana) (Fig. 122, F), the buck-bean (Menyanthes), the centauries (Erythraea and Sabbatia), and several other less familiar genera; Loganiaceae, with the pink-root (Spigelia) (Fig. 122, D), as the best-known example; Apocynaceae including the dog-bane ...

— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell

... he looked down upon the girl delightedly. His pulse beat fast. He put his arm about her and together they entered the cave. There was a marriage but no ceremony. Just as robins mate when they have met or as the buck and doe, so faithful man and wife became ...

— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo

... full of high grade so rich that the storekeeper once got five hundred dollars from the bucketful. He gave the Indian about twenty dollars' worth of grub and made him a present of two yards of bright blue ribbon, which tickled the old buck so much that in two weeks he was back with more high grade knotted in the bottom of a ...

— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower

... signals it from the tower to stop. I been handin' out laws to engines fer goin' on thirty year, an' I never seen one yet that bust over a law that didn't come to grief. You keep on the track, Sister, an' watch the signals an' obey orders an' you'll find it pays in the end. An' now, buck up, an' don't be scared. We'll see what we can do to git ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

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