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▪ I. bucking, vbl. n.1|ˈbʌkɪŋ|
[f. buck v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The operation of steeping or boiling yarn, cloth, or clothes in a lye of wood ashes, etc., in the old process of bleaching, or in buck-washing; the quantity of clothes, etc. so treated; app. also the lye used in the process. (Cf. blacking.)
1483Cath. Angl. 38 A Bowkynge, lixiuarium. a1500Deguileville MS. Pilgr. Life of Manhode 21 b, in Cath. Angl. 38 Of thaym I make a bowkynge for to putte in and bowke and wasche alle fylthes. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 140 Throw fowle linnen vpon him, as if it were going to bucking. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Bucking of cloth is the first step or degree of whitening it. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsb. II. 161 (Jam.) Help me to the water wi' a boucking o' claes? 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 163 This alternate bucking and exposing on the grass is the old manner of bleaching. 1875Ure Dict. Arts I. 364 Boiling in an alkaline lye, or, in other words, bucking or bowking.
2. Comb., as bucking-basket, bucking-cloth, bucking-house, bucking-stoke, bucking-stool, bucking-tub, bucking-vat. Also bucking-ashes = buck-ashes (buck n.3 5); bucking-keir, -washing, see quots.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 65 b, The Gardners use to lay *bucking ashes about it.
1832Scott Nigel ii, Off with Janet in her own *bucking-basket.
1551–60Inv. in H. Hall Soc. in Elizab. Age (1886) 152 A Bucking Tubb. A *Bucking clothe and a paile. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. v. (1668) 138 Cover the uppermost Yarn with a bucking-cloth.
1597Manchester Crt. Leet Records (1885) II. 124 From the northe to the *bowking howse eight and fortie yards.
1810Henry Elem. Chem. (1826) II. 274 The goods..are laid in a large wooden vat or *bowking keir.
1483Cath. Angl. 38 A *Bowkynstoke, lixiuatorium.
1654Gayton Fest. Notes iii. iii. (L.) No bigger than a toad upon a *bucking-stool.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. v. (1668) 138 You shall pull out the spigget of the *bucking-tub. a1652Brome Queen's Exch. ii. ii, Their Buckets shall they bring..Their Bucking tubs, Baskets and Battledoors.
1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 163 It is then returned again into the *bucking vat.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xvii, ‘I'll cry up Ailie Muschat, and she and I will hae a grand *bouking-washing’. 1808–25Jamieson Dict., Boukin-washing, Boukit-washin', the great annual purification of the family linen, by means of bouk.
▪ II. ˈbucking, vbl. n.2
[f. buck v.2 + -ing1.]
The copulation of certain animals. Also attrib.
1535Coverdale Gen. xxx. 41 In the first buckynge tyme of the flockes. 1657S. Colvil Whig's Supplic. (1751) 122 Finmacoul..in a bucking time of year Did rout and chace a herd of deer.
▪ III. bucking, vbl. n.3|ˈbʌkɪŋ|
[f. buck v.3 + -ing1.]
= Buck-jumping.
1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn II. 212 That same bucking..is just what puzzles me utterly. 1882Detroit Free Press 2 Dec. 1/6 What he has just done is called bucking.
▪ IV. bucking, vbl. n.4 Mining.|ˈbʌkɪŋ|
[f. buck v.5 + -ing1.]
A peculiar manner of bruising ore practised in mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire; see quot. Attrib. in bucking hammer, bucking iron, bucking plate.
1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 85 In small mines Bucking is resorted to..This operation consists of pounding pieces of mixed ore on a slab of iron by means of a hammer or bucker. Ibid. I. 548 A bucking iron is a flat iron fixed on a handle, with which the ore is crushed; and a bucking plate is an iron plate on which the ore is placed to be crushed.
▪ V. bucking, ppl. a.|ˈbʌkɪŋ|
[f. buck v.3]
Of a horse: That bucks or buck-jumps.
1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn II. 212 [He] can sit some bucking horses which very few men will attempt to mount. |