Bucking

//ˈbʌkɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
  2. 2
    The liquid used in this process.
  3. 3
    A washing.
  4. 4
    The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
  5. 5
    The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
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  1. 6
    The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of buck form-of, gerund, participle, present

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challengecontentioncontradictioncontrapositioncounteractioncrosscurrent

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""Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about.""

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