Bucking

Quick meaning: Bucking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of buck.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of buck.

More Meanings

1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
2. The liquid used in this process.
3. A washing.
4. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
5. (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
6. The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.

Word Forms

• buckings

Synonyms for bucking

Depending on context, synonyms include crosscutting.

Related Words

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