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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Australia) The action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider..
But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping, — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.
“How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping.” Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said.
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Buckjumping means (Australia) The action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider..
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But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
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