bucker 
bucker 1 OmkVr), . f< //</'-' + -er 1 .] 1. A 
horse that bucks. 2. A bent piece of wood. 
especially that on which a slaughtered animal 
is suspended. [ I'rnv. Eng.] 3. A horse's hind 
leg. [I'rov. Eng.] 
bucket- (buk 'or), n. [=MI,(r. Ixtkrr, n knocker; 
< hurl** + -(/!.] In ininiii;/: (a) One who bucks 
or bruises ore. (b) A flat broad-lieaded hum- 
mer used in bucking ore. 
bucker' (buk'er), H. [Abbr. of buckayro, an 
accom., simulating backer 1 , of Sp. rin/iii-ni. a 
cowherd: see I'lttinrrn.'] A cowboy. T. Kooge- 
rrlt. (Western U. S.I 
bucket (buk'ot), n. [Early mod. E. also bocket, 
< ME. linki I, liiil.i -it< , lml;iit, of uncertain origin, 
I >erhaps Celtic, < Ir. hnii-mil = (!ael. humid, a 
bucket, = Corn. Imket, a tub (Diefenbach), which 
forms, if not from E., are connected with Ir. 
Iniifi-iiil, a knob, boss. (iael. lntraul,& pustule, < 
Ir. bociiint, I swell, = Gael, hoc, swell ; less prob. 
connected with AS. hue (or buc), a pitcher, jug 
(L. lagcna, hyclria). Cf. E. boak, dial, a pail.] 
1. A vessel for drawing up water, as from a 
well; a pail or open vessel of wood, leather, 
metal, or other material, for carrying water or 
other liquid. 2. A vane, float, or box on a 
water-wheel against which the water impinges, 
or into which it falls, in turning the wneel. 
3. The scoop of a dredging-machine, a grain- 
elevator, etc. 4. The float of a paddle-wheel. 
8. The piston of a lifting-pump. 6. Asmuch 
as a bucket holds ; half a bushel Air-pump 
bucket. s> nit-pump. Dumping-bucket, a square 
i>"\ with u drop-bottom, used in mining. To kick the 
bucket, to die. [Slang.] 
" Fine him a pot, " roared one, " for talking about kidcitui 
the bucket ; he's a nice young man to keep a cove's spirits 
up, and talk about ' a short life and a merry one.' " 
l\; n i.-'.l- u. Alton Locke, li. 
Ventilated bucket, a bucket in a water-wheel having 
provision for the escape of the air carried into it by the 
water. 
bucket (buk'et), r. [< bucket, .] I. intrans. 1. 
To dip up water with a bucket ; use a bucket. 
Like Danaides' Sieve-like Tub is filling ever, 
But never full for all their /nickeling. 
Silleenter, Memorials of Mortalitte, st. 23. 
2. [In allusion to the rapid motion of a bucket 
in a well.] To move fast. [Slang.] 
He sprang into the saddle smiling, because the visit 
was over, and bucketed back at a nana-gallop. Dickens. 
U. trans. To pour water upon with a bucket. 
Wo be to him whose head is bucketed with waters of a 
scalding bath. /;,.. Ilatket, Life of Abp. Williams, ii. 194. 
bucket-engine (buk'et-en'jin), n. An appli- 
cation of Hie principle of the water-wheel, con- 
sisting of a series of buckets attached to an 
endless chain which runs over a pair of sprock- 
et-wheels, from either one or both of which 
power may be obtained : designed to utilize a 
stream of water which has a considerable fall, 
but is limited in quantity. E. H. Knight. 
bucketful (buk'et-ful), n. [< bucket + -//.] 
As much as a bucket will hold. 
bucket-lift (buk'et-lift), w. In macJt., a set of 
iron pipes attached to a lifting-pump, as of a 
mine. 
bucket-pitch (buk'et-pich), n. In an overshot 
water-wheel, a circular line passing through 
the elbows of the buckets. 
bucket-rod (buk'et-rod), . In mach., one of 
the wooden rods to which the piston of a lift- 
ing-pump is attached. 
bucket-shop (buk'et-shop), . An establish- 
ment conducted nominally for the transaction 
of a stock-exchange business, or a business 
of similar character, but really for the regis- 
tration of bets or wagers, usually for small 
amounts, on the rise or fall of the prices of 
stocks, grain, oil, etc., there being no transfer 
or delivery of the stocks or commodities nomi- 
nally dealt in. [U. 8.] 
1 l'ut> ' ;md "calls" and bttckrt *A<;> u|>vratii>n8 are gam- 
tiling transactions. ;md should IK- trosited accordingly. 
The X,llin. XXXVI. 364. 
bucket-valve (bnk'et-valv), . In a steam-en- 
gine, the valve on the top of the 
air-pump bucket. /.'. If. Kiiiijht. 
bucket-wheel (buk'et-hwel), n. 
A machine for raising water, 
consisting of a wheel over which 
passes a rope or chain carry- 
in;; a series of buckets which 
dip into the well and discharge 
at the surface. In other forms 
the buckets are fixed to the 
periphery of the wheel. 
buckeye '(buk'i), . [X buck 1 , a 
deer, + eye; in allusion to the 
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appearance of the naked seed.] 1. An Ameri- 
can name for the different species of horse- 
chestnut, ./>(/.<, native to the United States. 
Flowering Branch of Fetid Buckeye (^sett/at 
a, nut ; f>. dehiscing fruit. 
(From Gray's " Genera of Plants of the U. S."> 
The species commonly distinguished are the sweet buck- 
eye (./.'. /''/(? ). the Ohio or fetid buckeye (./-.'. tjlabrct), and 
the California buckeye (JB. Californica). The wood in 
white, soft, and spongy, and furnishes splints for basket*, 
etc. 
The buckeye* were putting forth their twisted hortu of 
blossom. /(. L. Stevenson, Silverado Squatters, p. 54. 
2. An inhabitant of Ohio, which is often called 
the Buckeye State, from the great number of 
horse-chestnuts in it. 8. A flat-bottomed 
centerboard schooner of small size (3 to 15 
Baltimore Buckeye. 
tons), decked over, and with a cabin aft, used 
in oyster-fishing in Chesapeake Bay. Also 
called bugeye. 
The buckeyes . . . are an exaggeration of the dugout 
canoe. . . . The primitive builder bored two holes, one on 
each side of the stem, through which to pay out his cables. 
These were simply two round holes, bored with a large 
auger, and, when the boat was coming bead on, resembled 
to the fancy of the negroes the eyes of a buck. 
C. P. Kunhardt, Small Yachts, p. 234. 
Spanish buckeye, tfngnadia upecwsa, a tree of Texas 
and Mexico nearly related to .Km- liu. 
buck-eyed (buk'id), a. Having a bad or speckled 
eye : said of a horse. 
buck-fever (buk'fe'ver), n. Nervous agitation 
of a hunter upon the approach of deer or other 
large game. Also called buck-ague. 
buckflnch (buk'finch), . [Cf. Dan. bogfinkc.] 
A name for the chaffinch. Fringilla ceelebs. 
buckheading (buk' hed'mg), n. Cutting off 
live hedge-thorns, fence-height. Grose. [North. 
Eng.] 
buckhorn (buk'hflrn), n. [= ODan. Dan. bukkc- 
hnrn, a buck's horn, also fenugreek.] 1. The 
substance of the horns of bucks or deer, used 
in making knife-handles, etc. 2. A name for 
the club-moss, Lycopodium claratum. BuckHorn 
brake. See brake !>'. 
buckhorn-sight (buk'hdrn-sit), n. A rifle- 
sight which has a branching projection on 
each side of the sight-notch. 
buck-hound (buk'hound), n. A kind of hound, 
resembling a small staghound, used for hunting 
bucks. 
buckle, bucky (buk'i), . [Sc., of uncertain 
origin. In sense 1, cf. L. buccinum, prop. 
Inn-ilium, a shell-fish used in dyeing purple (see 
/lucent UIH); also OF. bouquet, "a great prawn" 
i( 'otgrave).] 1. The Scotch name for marine 
univalve shells in general, as whelks, etc.: 
buckle 
especially applied til the red whelk, 
ilinniix aiitii/iiH.v. iilsu called I lie ruarnig , 
from the sound heard when it is held to the 
ear. 2. A perverse, refractory person; a mis- 
chievous madcap. DeevU'a or dell's buckle, (a) 
A (wrticlllar >|M-I ii-M i.f thai kin>! t -ti, IU r.-illcd buckle*. 
('> Sunn- ii- '.".<... _'. //.../.;. 
bucking 1 (buk'ing), . [Verbal n. of buck 1 , r.] 
act of copulating, as bucks and does. 
bucking- (bilk'ing), . [Verbal n. of Intel.-, r. ] 
A vice peculiar to the horses of Mexico, Texas, 
and the western American plains, of Spanish 
descent, and to mules. See linrk", r. 
bucking- (buk'ing), /'. n. [I'pr. of Imclft, .] 
(iiven In bucking; addicted to the practice of 
bucking: as, a burking horse. 
bucking 3 (buk'ing), '. [Verbal n. of hitrk'- 1 , r. 
Also written boirkin//.'] The act or process of 
steeping or soaking in lye or caustic soda, as 
in bleaching cotton thread, etc. 
The boiling (also called "bowking" or "bucking") with 
caustic soda solution takes place in targe Iron boiler* or 
"klers." 
J. J. Uummd, The Dyeing of Textile Fabrics, p. 73. 
bucking 4 (buk'ing), n. [Verbal n. of buck*, .] 
The act of breaking or pulverizing ore. 
Buckingham lace. See lace. 
bucking-iron (buk'ing-i'ern), it. In mining, a 
tool for bucking or pulverizing ore. 
bucking-kier (buk'mg-ker), n. A large circu- 
lar boiler or kier used in bleaching. 
bucking-plate (buk'ing-plat), . In mining, 
an iron plate on which the ores are placed in 
the process of bucking. 
bucking-stool (buk'ing-stol), n. A washing- 
block. 
buckish (buk'ish), a. [< buck 1 , 3, + -MA 1 .] 
Pertaining to a buck or gay young fellow; 
foppish. 
buckishness(buk'ish-nes), n. Foppishness; the 
quality or condition of a buck. 
buckism (buk'izm), n. [< buck 1 , 3, + -ism.'] 
The quality of being a buck ; foppery. 
I waa once a delightful auctioneer my present trade Is 
buckimn. Morton, Hecreta worth Knowing, ili. 2. 
buck-jumper (buk ' jum * per), n. A bucking 
horse or mule. [U. 8.] 
When they found that he sat a buck-jumper as if the an- 
imal symlmlized the arch-nend himself, they took him to 
their hearts. 
Arch. Forbf*, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 66. 
buckle 1 (buk'i), v. ; pret. and pp. buckled, ppr. 
buckling. [Prob., like the simple form DUCI&, 
of LG. origin; cf. MD. buchelen, buechelen, 
boeeJiflen (for "buckelcn, etc. Kilian), strive, 
tug under a load, = G. dial. (Bav. ) refl. aufbiick- 
cln, raise the back, as a cat (lit. buckle one's 
self up) ; freq. of the verb repr. by buck'*. Cf . 
MD. adj. boechel, curved, bent. A different 
word from buckle^, r., though confused with it 
in some senses.] I. intrans. 1. To bend; bow. 
Whose fever-weaken'd joints, 
Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life. 
Shale., 2 Hen. IV., I. 1. 
Antonio . . . saw the Imards burkl* tinder the feet of 
the walker. C. Mather, Mag. Chris., vt 7. 
The top-mast studding-sail Ixiom, after bticklintj up and 
springing out again like a piece of whalebone, broke off at 
the boom-iron. A //. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 76. 
2. To curl ; become wrinkled ; shrivel up. 
Melted and buckkd with the heat of the Are like parch- 
ment /'.".", Diary, Kept. :.. 1666. 
3. To yield assent ; agree : with tn : as, I can't 
buckle to that. [Colloq.] 4. To bend to some- 
thing; apply one's self with vigor; engage in 
with zeal: with to: as, "go, buckle to the law," 
Dryden. 6. To enterupon some labor or con- 
test; struggle; contend: with icilli. 
The bishop was as able and ready to buckle irith the 
lord protector, as he was >'/< him. 
Latimer. 2d St-riii. Ix'f. F.dw. VI., 1649. 
Why met you not the Tartar, and defied him? 
Drew your dead-doing sword, and buckled <nih him f 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, IT. 5. 
To buckle in, to close In ; embrace or seize the body, u 
in a scuffle. [U- S.] 
II. trans. To bend ; curl ; shrivel as by the 
application of heat. 
Like a bow buckled and bent together 
By some more strong in mischiefs than myself. 
ford and Dekkrr, WiU-h of Edmonton, IL 1. 
The force generated in these plates [accumulator!, tend- 
ing to buckle them, is something enormous, and no ordinary 
separator would be able to resist this. Science, IV. 380. 
buckle 1 (buk'i), w. [< biirkli ', r. : usually re- 
ferred to buckle^, n. Cf. Dan. bukkel, a curl.] 
1. A bend, bulge, or kink, as in a saw-blade. 
2. A contorted expression of the face. Church- 
ill. 3f. Any curl of hair, especially a long 
