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Bucker

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A horse or other animal that bucks.
  2. 2
    A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
  3. 3
    One who bucks ore.
  4. 4
    A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From buck + -er.

Etymology 2

Variant of Booker or borrowed from German Bücker.

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