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noun

Bucker n. (Mining)

One who bucks ore.

A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

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Etymology of 'Bucker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bucker" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. McClure approvingly. "The cowpuncher doesn't look at it that way, however. He wouldn't feel at home on a horse that didn't break the monotony by bucking now and then. Did you ever ride a bucker?" ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains • Frank Gee Patchin

... with extended arm, gazing upward entranced. The scene that, followed beggars description. By a simultaneous impulse all rose to their feet and pressed toward the speaker with awestruck faces, and when Grandmother Bucker, the matriarch of the valley, with luminous face and uplifted eyes, broke into a shout, it swelled into a melodious hurricane that shook the very hills. He ought to have been a preacher. So he said to ...

— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald

... exclaimed as he stepped out; "that was worse nor a cyclone. I would rather sit on the back of the worst kind of bucker than jump over those waves again. If we are going to have much of this I should say let us find our way back and ask the Utes ...

— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty