buckingn.1
/ˈbʌkɪŋ/ The operation of steeping or boiling yarn, cloth, or clothes in a lye of wood ashes, etc., in the old process of bleaching, or in buck-washing; the quantity of clothes, etc. so treated; apparently also the lye used in the process. Cf. blacking n.1
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > washing by steeping or boiling
bucking1483
buck-washing1602
bucking-washing1808
1483 Cath. Angl. 38 A Bowkynge, lixiuarium.
a1500 Deguileville MS. Pilgr. Life of Manhode 21 b, in Cath. Angl. 38 Of thaym I make a bowkynge for to putte in and bowke and wasche alle fylthes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 123 Throw fowle linnen vpon him, as if it were going to bucking . View more context for this quotation
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bucking of cloth is the first step or degree of whitening it.
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 161 Help me to the water wi' a boucking o' claes?
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 163 This alternate bucking and exposing on the grass is the old manner of bleaching.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 364 Boiling in an alkaline lye, or, in other words, bucking or bowking.
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bucking-basket n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > bag or basket for washing
buck-basket1602
voider1707
clothes-basketa1806
bucking-basket1822
wash-basket1881
laundry bag1895
linen basket1907
washing basket1947
Ali Baba1978
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 52 Off with Janet in her own bucking basket.
bucking-cloth n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > cloth used in steeping or boiling clothes
bucking-cloth1551
1551–60 Inventory in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1886) 152 A Bucking Tubb. A Bucking clothe and a paile.
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. v. 138 Cover the uppermost Yarn with a bucking-cloth.
bucking-house n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done
lavendry1377
washing-house14..
bucking-stoke1483
laundry1577
wash-house1577
laundry-house1585
bucking-house1597
wash-yardc1625
lavatory1661
buck-house1738
woman-house1754
wash-kitchen1838
water-shed1859
washery1875
1597 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 124 From the northe to the bowking howse eight and fortie yards.
bucking-stoke n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done
lavendry1377
washing-house14..
bucking-stoke1483
laundry1577
wash-house1577
laundry-house1585
bucking-house1597
wash-yardc1625
lavatory1661
buck-house1738
woman-house1754
wash-kitchen1838
water-shed1859
washery1875
1483 Cath. Angl. 38 A Bowkynstoke, lixiuatorium.
bucking-stool n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > other processes > equipment for
bucking-stool1654
thread-finisher1877
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. iii. 84 No bigger than a Toad upon a Bucking-stoole.
bucking-tub n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in
wash-bowla1529
buck1530
boyne1532
washing-tub1560
wash-tub1602
bucking-tub1615
buck-vat1620
washing-bowl1622
swill1624
possing tub1659
suds-tub1805
bucking-vat1822
bucking-keir1823
peggy tub1823
poss-tub1829
pounding barrel1853
posskit1855
wash-boiler1875
washpot1926
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. v. 138 You shall pull out the spigget of the bucking-tub.
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) ii. ii Their Buckets shall they bring..Their Bucking tubs, Baskets and Battledoors.
bucking-vat n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in
wash-bowla1529
buck1530
boyne1532
washing-tub1560
wash-tub1602
bucking-tub1615
buck-vat1620
washing-bowl1622
swill1624
possing tub1659
suds-tub1805
bucking-vat1822
bucking-keir1823
peggy tub1823
poss-tub1829
pounding barrel1853
posskit1855
wash-boiler1875
washpot1926
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 163 It is then returned again into the bucking vat.
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bucking-ashes n. = buck-ashes n. at buck n.3 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 64v The Gardners vse to lay bucking asshes about it.
bucking-keir n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in
wash-bowla1529
buck1530
boyne1532
washing-tub1560
wash-tub1602
bucking-tub1615
buck-vat1620
washing-bowl1622
swill1624
possing tub1659
suds-tub1805
bucking-vat1822
bucking-keir1823
peggy tub1823
poss-tub1829
pounding barrel1853
posskit1855
wash-boiler1875
washpot1926
1823 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 9) II. ix. 258 The goods..are laid in a large wooden vat or bowking keir.
bucking-washing n. see quots.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > washing by steeping or boiling
bucking1483
buck-washing1602
bucking-washing1808
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Boukin-washing, Boukit-washin', the great annual purification of the family linen, by means of bouk.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 117 I'll cry up Ailie Muschat, and she and I will hae a grand bouking-washing.
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buckingn.2
The copulation of certain animals. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > copulation of
bucking1535
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxx. G In the first buckynge tyme of the flockes.
1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 122 Finmacoul..in a bucking time of year Did rout and chace a herd of deer.
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buckingn.3
/ˈbʌkɪŋ/ = Buck-jumping.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > leap > buck > bucking
buck-jumping1848
bucking1859
sunfishing1901
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn II. 212 That same bucking..is just what puzzles me utterly.
1882 Detroit Free Press 2 Dec. 1/6 What he has just done is called bucking.
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buckingn.4
/ˈbʌkɪŋ/ Mining.
A peculiar manner of bruising ore practised in mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire; see quot. Attributive in bucking hammer, bucking iron, bucking plate.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore > bruising ore
bucking1875
society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > other hammers
hand-hammereOE
maulc1225
plating hammer1543
bucker1653
axe-hammer1681
brick hammer1688
chipping hammer1783
tup1848
clinch-hammer1850
tack-hammer1865
bucking hammer1875
bloat1881
ringer1883
key hammer1884
peen hammer1885
straight pein1904
toffee hammer1958
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 85 In small mines Bucking is resorted to..This operation consists of pounding pieces of mixed ore on a slab of iron by means of a hammer or bucker.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 548 A bucking iron is a flat iron fixed on a handle, with which the ore is crushed; and a bucking plate is an iron plate on which the ore is placed to be crushed.
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buckingadj.
/ˈbʌkɪŋ/ Of a horse: That bucks or buck-jumps.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [adjective] > leaping or prancing > bucking
bucking1859
sunfishing1908
buckish1911
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn II. 212 [He] can sit some bucking horses which very few men will attempt to mount.
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