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- English Word Bucket Definition The valved piston of a lifting pump.
- English Word Bucket shop Definition An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
- English Word Buckety Definition Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
- English Word Buckeye Definition A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
- English Word Buckeye Definition A cant name for a native in Ohio.
- English Word Buckhound Definition A hound for hunting deer.
- English Word Buckie Definition A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
- English Word Bucking Definition of Buck
- English Word Bucking Definition The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
- English Word Bucking Definition A washing.
- English Word Bucking Definition The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
- English Word Buckish Definition Dandified; foppish.
- English Word Buckle Definition A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
- English Word Buckle Definition A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
- English Word Buckle Definition A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- English Word Buckle Definition A contorted expression, as of the face.
- English Word Buckle Definition To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
- English Word Buckle Definition To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
- English Word Buckle Definition To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
- English Word Buckle Definition To join in marriage.
- English Word Buckle Definition To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
- English Word Buckle Definition To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
- English Word Buckle Definition To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- English Word Buckle Definition To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
- English Word Buckled Definition of Buckle
- English Word Buckler Definition A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
- English Word Buckler Definition One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- English Word Buckler Definition The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
- English Word Buckler Definition A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
- English Word Buckler Definition To shield; to defend.