bucker
Meanings
noun
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- 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.
- One who bucks ore.
- A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
name
- A surname from German.
Word forms
Etymology
From buck + -er.
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