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bucker

bucker noun: a horse or other animal that bucks.

bucker: a horse or other animal that bucks
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Noun

bucker (plural buckers)

  1. A horse or other animal that bucks.
  2. A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
  3. One who bucks ore.
  4. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Proper noun capitalized: Bucker

Bucker (plural Buckers)

  1. A surname from German.

bucker meaning in Tamil

bucker in Tamil

இடக்கு மா

Forms of bucker

Noun
pluralbuckers
Proper noun
pluralBuckers

Origin of bucker

From buck + -er.

Variant of Booker or borrowed from German Bücker.

Words that rhyme with bucker

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bucker

What does bucker mean?
Bucker means a horse or other animal that bucks.
What is bucker in Tamil?
Bucker in Tamil is இடக்கு மா. See Bucker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bucker?
Bucker can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bucker?
The plural of bucker is buckers.

Words near bucker in the dictionary

  1. Buckenbowra
  2. Buckenderra
  3. Buckendoon
  4. Buckenham
  5. Buckenhams
  6. bucker
  7. Buckeridge
  8. buckeroo
  9. buckeroos
  10. buckers
  11. bucket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bucker (page history and authors); Bucker (page history and authors); bucker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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