B UCKE T — B UGGY 



Bucket. — An indispensable stable utensil which should 

 be made of wood. 



Buck Eye. — A term now applied to a prominent eye 

 which is usually believed to be associated with short sight. 

 In days gone by the expression conveyed an exactly opposite 

 meaning, being used when referring to a small-eyed animal. 

 (See Eyes, Pig Eye) 



Buckjumping, or bucking, as it is often called, is a not 

 uncommon cause of disaster to careless or bad riders. It 

 consists of a sudden upward spring on the part of the horse, 

 which lifts all his legs off the ground at the same time and 

 simultaneously arches his back and lowers his neck. Bucking 

 is a far more common vice amongst horses raised on ranches 

 than amongst those who have been handled whilst young, 

 but bad breaking and unnecessarily severe bits account for 

 many cases, whilst sometimes horses indulge in a playful 

 buck simply because they are over-fresh. 



Buck Knees. — Knees which turn inwards towards each 

 other. (See Ktiees.) 



A Buffer. 



Buffer. — An instru- 

 ment used by shoeing 

 smiths for removing the 

 clinches out of the ends 

 of nails when taking a 

 shoe off (See Clinches, 

 Shoeing.) 



Buggy. — This name is now applied to any form of 

 Stanhope gig, but it is generally understood to denote the 

 higher grade of Stanhope gig with leather hood, closed 

 panels, and the orthodox buggy suspension, as illustration. 

 The lighter and cheaper styles of buggy are called Stanhope 

 gigs. 



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