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Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston..

Sawhorse :: Sawhorse (n.) A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Buckety :: Buckety (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

Bocasine :: Bocasine (n.) A sort of fine buckram.

Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.

Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus)..

Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..

Buckwheat :: Buckwheat (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc..

Buckeye :: Buckeye (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

Chiltern Hundreds :: Chiltern Hundreds () A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats..

Buckram :: Buckram (a.) Stiff; precise.

Buckhound :: Buckhound (n.) A hound for hunting deer.

Advancer :: Advancer (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler.

Pricket :: Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

Roedeer :: Roedeer (n.) The roebuck.

Sore :: Sore (n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Springe :: Springbuck (n.) A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer..

Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet..

Haulm :: Haulm (n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw..

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