Bucked vs Buckled - What's the difference?
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(buck)
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
(British, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
* 1808 , (editor), The Connoisseur'', ''The British Essayists , Volume 32,
* 1825 , , I Zingari'', ''The English in Italy , Volume II,
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
(US, Australia, NZ, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money
(US, slang) One hundred.
(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
(US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
(UK, dialect) The body of a post mill]], particularly in . See Wikipedia:[[w:Mill_machinery#Windmill_machinery, Windmill machinery.
(finance, jargon) One million dollars.
(informal) A euro
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
To bend; buckle.
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
* 1849 , Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy'', William Carron, ''Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy ,
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
* W. E. Norris
(military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
(by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
(by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
(by extension) To overcome or shed (, an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: .
(forestry) To saw a tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(Webster 1913)
(buckle)
To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
(figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
* Samuel Pepys
(obsolete) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
* Latimer
* Shakespeare
To buckle down; to apply oneself.
* Barrow
* J. D. Forbes
* Fuller
(countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
(Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
(roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
* Washington Irving
* Addison
A contorted expression, as of the face.
* Churchill
To fasten using a buckle.
(Scotland) To unite in marriage.
As verbs the difference between bucked and buckled
is that bucked is (buck) while buckled is (buckle).bucked
English
Verb
(head)buck
English
(wikipedia buck)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (buc), bucke, bukke, from (etyl) buc, bucc, ). Sense 6 is from mid 19th century, but of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)page 93,
- This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck .
page 153,
- The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse.
- Can I borrow five bucks ?
- Corporations will do anything to make a buck
- The police caught me driving a buck -forty on the freeway.
- That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter.
- pass the buck''; ''the buck stops here
Synonyms
* (male deer) stag * (male goat) billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat * (male ferret) hob, hob-ferret * (ram) ram, tup * bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo * (item that indicates dealer in poker) button, dealer buttonDerived terms
* buckskin * crossbuck * young buck * pass the buck, buck-passing, the buck stops here * sawbuck (not descended from buck , but clearly influenced by) * buck naked (origin uncertain)See also
* doe, doeling, ewe, gill, jill, nanny, nanny-goat, she-goatEtymology 2
From (etyl) . See above. Compare (bow).Verb
(en verb)2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121,
- At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.
- The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
- The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.
- The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
- The plane bucked a strong headwind.
- Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
- John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
Derived terms
* bucker * buck up * buck for * bucking bronco * buck the trendEtymology 3
See beech.Derived terms
* buckmast, buck-mastEtymology 4
Noun
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(en verb)buckled
English
Verb
(head)buckle
English
(wikipedia buckle)Etymology 1
From a frequentative form of .Verb
(buckl)- Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled , preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
- It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
- The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle .
- The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
- In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
- To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.
- Before buckling to my winter's work.
- Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
Etymology 2
* Noun: (etyl) bocle, from (etyl) . * Verb: bokelen "to arch the body," from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
- earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face
- lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year
- 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.
Verb
- (Sir Walter Scott)
