buck3 (buk)

[= Sc. bouk: see buck3, v.] 1. Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed.-21. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye or suds; a wash. Of late, not able to travel with her furred pack, she washes bucks here at home. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2 Well, I will in and cry too; never leave Crying until our maids may drive a buck With my salt tears at the next washing-day. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iii. 5. If I were to beat a buck , I can strike no harder. Mas singer, Virgin-Martyr, iv. 2.