buck vs clam

buck

noun
  • A dollar (one hundred cents). 

  • The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. 

  • A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. 

  • An uncastrated sheep, a ram. 

  • A rand (currency unit). 

  • A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. 

  • Size. 

  • A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad. 

  • A euro. 

  • Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”) 

  • One hundred. 

  • The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery. 

  • A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting. 

  • The beech tree. 

  • Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. 

  • One million dollars. 

  • The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part. 

  • Belly, breast, chest. 

  • A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. 

  • Money. 

verb
  • To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. 

  • To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against. 

  • To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner. 

  • To copulate, as bucks and does. 

  • To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. 

  • To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly. 

  • To break up or pulverize, as ores. 

  • To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. 

  • To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. 

  • To fuck. 

  • To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking. 

  • To bend; buckle. 

  • To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood. 

  • To swell out. 

  • To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process. 

  • To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack. 

clam

noun
  • A dollar. 

  • A kind of vise, usually of wood. 

  • One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak. 

  • clamminess; moisture 

  • A vagina. 

  • A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. 

  • Strong pincers or forceps. 

  • A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. 

  • A Scientologist. 

  • In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note. 

verb
  • To dig for clams. 

  • To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. 

  • To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. 

  • To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. 

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