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Definitions

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.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname from German.

Synonyms

All synonyms

booking agent

Etymology

Etymology 1

From buck + -er.

Etymology 2

Variant of Booker or borrowed from German Bücker.

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