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buck

a. the male of various animals including the goat, hare, kangaroo, rabbit, and reindeer

b. (as modifier): a buck antelope

2. South African an antelope or deer of either sex

buck

1. US, Canadian, and Austral informal a dollar

2. South African informal a rand

buck

1. Gymnastics a type of vaulting horse

2. US and Canadian a stand for timber during sawing

buck

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Poker a marker in the jackpot to remind the winner of some obligation when his turn comes to deal

Buck

Pearl S(ydenstricker). 1892--1973, US novelist, noted particularly for her novel of Chinese life The Good Earth (1931): Nobel prize for literature 1938

buck

[bək]

(building construction)

The frame into which the finished door fits.

(mining engineering)

To break up or pulverize ore samples.

A large quartz reef in which there is little or no accessory minerals such as gold. Also known as buck quartz; bull quartz.

(vertebrate zoology)

A male deer.

buck

1. A door buck.

2. A sawhorse.

Buck

after murder of his master, leads wolf pack. [Am. Lit.: The Call of the Wild]

See: Dogs

Buck

clever and temerarious dog perseveres in the Klondike. [Am. Lit.: Call of the Wild]

See: Resourcefulness

References in periodicals archive ?

About 60 percent of bucking patterns generated by the computer were different from the patterns bucked manually.

The effects of three interactions among species group, butt diameter class, and bucking method were tested on gross value and volume yield of bucked logs per tree.

Means and significance levels of statistics of tree stems bucked by a logger and a computer for northeastern China tree species.