Buckjumping vs Buckjumper - What's the difference?
buckjumping | buckjumper |
(of a horse) The action of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.
* 1863 , , Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts ,
(Australia) A rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period.
* 1857 , Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies ,
* 1893 , Ernest Favenc, Tales of the Austral Tropics ,
As nouns the difference between buckjumping and buckjumper
is that buckjumping is the action of aggressively attempting to buck a rider while buckjumper is one who takes part in buckjumping.buckjumping
English
Noun
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- But, after a little preliminary buckjumping , Pyrrhus falsified his keeper?s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
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- The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping , — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.
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- “How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping .”
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