Definition for BUCK

BUCK, n.1 [G. bauche, beuche; Sp. bugada.]

  1. Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed. – Encyc. Johnson.
  2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye. – Shak.

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