Buck vs. Ram

Bucknoun

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.

Bucknoun

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

Bucknoun

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

Bucknoun

A fop or dandy.

Bucknoun

A black or Native American man.

Bucknoun

A dollar (one hundred cents).

Bucknoun

A rand (currency unit).

Bucknoun

Money

Bucknoun

One hundred.

Bucknoun

(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

Bucknoun

Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.

Bucknoun

The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

Bucknoun

(finance) One million dollars.

Bucknoun

(informal) A euro.

Bucknoun

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Bucknoun

A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See [http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/additional-how-to/1009sr-making-a-wood-buck/ Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck"].

Bucknoun

synonym of buck dance

Bucknoun

synonym of muletype of cocktail with ginger ale etc.

Bucknoun

(Scotland) The beech tree.

Bucknoun

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

Bucknoun

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

Buckverb

(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

Buckverb

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.

Buckverb

To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

Buckverb

To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

Buckverb

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

Buckverb

To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

Buckverb

To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

Buckverb

To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

Buckverb

(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.

Buckverb

(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

Buckverb

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

Buckverb

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

Buckverb

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

Buckverb

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

Bucknoun

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

Bucknoun

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

Bucknoun

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

Bucknoun

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

Bucknoun

A male Indian or negro.

Bucknoun

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Bucknoun

The beech tree.

Buckverb

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.

Buckverb

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

Buckverb

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

Buckverb

To copulate, as bucks and does.

Buckverb

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; - said of a vicious horse or mule.

Buckverb

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

Buckverb

To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

Bucknoun

a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

Bucknoun

a piece of paper money worth one dollar

Bucknoun

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

Bucknoun

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Bucknoun

mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

Buckverb

to strive with determination;

Buckverb

resist;

Buckverb

move quickly and violently;

Buckverb

jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

Buckadjective

of the lowest rank in a category;

Ramnoun

A male sheep.

Ramnoun

A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

Ramnoun

A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

Ramnoun

A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

Ramnoun

A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.

Ramverb

(transitive) To intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.

Ramverb

(transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

Ramverb

(transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

Ramverb

(slang) To penetrate sexually.

Ramnoun

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

Ramnoun

Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

Ramnoun

An engine of war used for butting or battering.

Ramnoun

A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

Ramnoun

The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

Ramnoun

The plunger of a hydraulic press.

Ramverb

To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.

Ramverb

To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

Ramnoun

the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible

Ramnoun

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

Ramnoun

the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19

Ramnoun

a tool for driving or forcing something by impact

Ramnoun

uncastrated adult male sheep;

Ramverb

strike or drive against with a heavy impact;

Ramverb

force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

Ramverb

undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Ramverb

crowd or pack to capacity;

Ramnoun

an uncastrated male sheep.

Ramnoun

the zodiacal sign or constellation Aries.

Ramnoun

a battering ram.

Ramnoun

a beak or other projecting part of the bow of a warship, for piercing the sides of other ships.

Ramnoun

the falling weight of a piledriving machine.

Ramnoun

a hydraulic water-raising or lifting machine.

Ramnoun

the piston of a hydrostatic press.

Ramnoun

the plunger of a force pump.

Ramverb

roughly force (something) into place

Ramverb

(of a vehicle or vessel) be driven violently into (another vehicle or vessel) in an attempt to stop or damage it

Ramverb

crash violently against something

Ramverb

beat (earth) with a heavy implement to make it hard and firm

Ramverb

(of a place) be very crowded