▪ I. bucker1
(ˈbʌkə(r))
[f. buck v.3 + -er1.]
A horse given to bucking.
| 1884 Harper's Mag. July 301/1 If we should..select ‘a bucker’, the probabilities are that we will come to grief. |
▪ II. ˈbucker2 Mining.
[f. buck v.5]
A hammer used in bucking ore (see quot.).
| 1653 E. Manlove Rhymed Chron. 261 Break-offs, and Buckers, Randum of the Rake. 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. H ij b, A mixture of Stone..with the Ore..goes under the Bucker, and then it yeilds good Smitham. 1851 Tapping Gloss. Derbysh. Min. T. (E.D.S.) Bucker..consists of a flat piece of iron about the size of a man's open hand; at the back of it is a broad ring, through which is thrust a piece of wood for a handle. |
▪ III. ˈbucker3 N. Amer.
[f. buck v.9]
One who saws trees into logs.
| 1900 Treasurer's Bur. Statistics Nov. 1116, A logging crew consists of..2 swampers, 2 buckers, [etc.]. 1956 Amer. Speech XXXI. 149 Bucker, a logger who saws felled trees into log lengths. 1963 Times 24 Jan. 11/6 The aristocrats, the fallers and buckers, often make {pstlg}15 [a day]. |