Word Meaning

Meaning of buck

- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
- A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
- A male Indian or negro.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- 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.
- 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.
- To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- The beech tree.

Crossword clue for buck

- Antelope worth one dollar
- Do these teeth cost a dollar?
- Doe’s mate
- Jump (of bronco)
- Male animal
- Male antelope
- Male deer
- Male deer; dollar
- Male rabbit
- The ... stops here
- Throw (jockey)
- Throw rider a dollar
- What rodeo bulls do for a dollar