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blucher

/ˈbluːkə/

blucher noun: a form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.

Noun (1)

blucher (plural bluchers)

  1. (historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
  2. A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
    • He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13

Proper noun capitalized: Blucher

Blucher

  1. In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble the fixed stake (an amount agreed upon before the game begins).
  2. A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343.
  3. A community within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.

Noun (2) capitalized: Blucher

Blucher (plural Bluchers)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of blucher.

Forms of blucher

pluralbluchers
pluralBluchers

Origin of blucher

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian general.

Words that rhyme with blucher

Questions about blucher

What does blucher mean?
Blucher means a form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
What part of speech is blucher?
Blucher can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce blucher?
Blucher is pronounced /ˈbluːkə/.
What is the plural of blucher?
The plural of blucher is bluchers.

Words near blucher in the dictionary

  1. blubbo
  2. blubbos
  3. blube
  4. blubes
  5. blubs
  6. blucher
  7. bluchers
  8. Bluck
  9. blucka
  10. Blucke
  11. blucket

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