Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bucker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables
buck-er
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A horse or other animal that bucks.

noun

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.

noun

One who bucks ore.

noun

A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

name

A surname from German.

Etymology

From buck + -er.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

buckers (plural)

Rhymes With

tucker fucker sucker trucker zucker pucker succour ducker smucker chucker mucker plucker

Questions

What does bucker mean?
A horse or other animal that bucks.
Where does bucker come from?
It is traced to German.

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