Chapter Buccinal to Bud of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. — To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]

Bucket shop
(Buck"et shop`) An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

Buckety
(Buck"et*y) n. [A corruption of buckwheat.] Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

Buckeye
(Buck"eye`) n.

1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut.

The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Æsculus glabra. — Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia. — Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora. — Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Æ. flava.

2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.]

Buckeye State, Ohio; — so called because buckeye trees abound there.

Buck-eyed
(Buck"-eyed`) a. Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

Buckhound
(Buck"hound`) n. A hound for hunting deer.

Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]

Buckie
(Buck"ie) n. (Zoöl.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.]

Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]

Bucking
(Buck"ing), n.

1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

2. A washing.

3. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

Bucking iron (Mining), a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores. — Bucking kier (Manuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. — Bucking stool, a washing block.

Buckish
(Buck"ish), a. Dandified; foppish.

Buckle
(Buc"kle) n. [OE. bocle buckle, boss of a shield, OF. bocle, F. boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a little cheek or mouth, dim. of bucca cheek; this boss or knob resembling a cheek.]

1. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.