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Buckeye :: Buckeye (n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.

Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

Stonechat :: Stonebuck (n.) See Steinbock.

Ramson :: Ramson (n.) A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram..

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

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe..

Bucking :: Bucking (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used..

Buckra :: Buckra (n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Stubbled :: Stubble (n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle..

Buck-basket :: Buck-basket (n.) A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

Buckram :: Buckram (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

Frangulin :: Frangulin (n.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin..

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

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

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