Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BUCK
BUCK, n.1 [G. bauche, beuche; Sp. bugada.]
- Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed. – Encyc. Johnson.
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye. – Shak.
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