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buck ((2)) 2

• 1 † v. saw wood into lengths, as with a bucksaw.

  See also: bucksaw  

  • 1912  . . . he can buck fire-wood if I tend him with spurs and quirt.
  • 1918  I can "bark" or "fall" or "buck," / An' w'en whisky's down de cook / I'm "cookee"!
  • 1962  We felled tree after tree, barked them, skidded them in with horses, bucked them into lengths. . . .

• 2 v. gather hay into windrows, as with a buckrake.

  • 1955  I've cut, raked and bucked prairie and slough hay (there's a difference) and helped with the stacking.
  • 1959  In an hour the men bucked some three or four tons of hay around the framework of the stable where it could be forked into the walls and onto the roof to complete the building.