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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Given to bucking; addicted to the practice of bucking: as, a bucking horse.
  • noun The act of copulating, as bucks and does.
  • noun The act of breaking or pulverizing ore.
  • 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.

from 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 (Mining) a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores.
  • noun (Manuf.) a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching.
  • noun a washing block.

from 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).

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