bucking
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editbucking
- present participle and gerund of buck
Noun
editbucking (plural buckings)
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The liquid used in this process.
- A washing.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- Synonyms: logging-up, crosscutting
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.