buck

a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

a piece of paper money worth one dollar

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

The beech tree.

to strive with determination

resist

move quickly and violently

jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

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.