Bucky

Like for a gun, you could say a gat but that's quite an old term. Most young people now would say stralley, a tool or a bucky.

There are two major types of bucky assemblies: reciprocating and recipromatic. The difference is that the reciprocating bucky moves at two different speeds during the exposure […]

The recipromatic Bucky differs from the manually cocked Bucky in that the grid travels in both directions across the table during the exposure.