bucker

See also: Bucker

English

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Etymology

From buck +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)

Noun

bucker (plural buckers)

1. A horse or other animal that bucks.
2. (metalworking) 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.
3. (mining) One who bucks ore.
4. (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Anagrams

• Rebuck, Rubeck