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An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

or become loose, by relaxation of the hand. We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. Sir S. Baker.

A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.

A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck. Shak.

aving a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron. -- Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa) of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit. -- Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single blocks. A doubl…

The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse. -- Spear grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under Meadow. -- Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. -- Spear side, the m…

umorously.] The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.

m. "Spelled with words of power." Dryden. He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot. Sir G. Buck.

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. To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale. -- To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient carriag…

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

lled also steenbok. [Written also steinboc, and steinbok; also called stonebock, and stonebuck.]

ick upon, to dwell upon; not to forsake. "If the matter be knotty, the mind must stop and buckle to it, and stick upon it with labor and thought." Locke.

were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery. Sir G. Buck.

ain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in…

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle.

gether; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes. "Two rogues in buckram suits." Shak.

Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.