Stag
Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer and the chital, and the Capreolinae, including the reindeer (caribou), the roe deer and the moose. Female reindeer, and male deer of all species (except the Chinese water deer), grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned antelope, which are in the same order, Artiodactyla.
The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain (or mouse deer) of tropical African and Asian forests are not usually regarded as true deer and form their own families: Moschidae and Tragulidae, respectively.
Deer appear in art from Paleolithic cave paintings onwards, and they have played a role in mythology, religion, and literature throughout history, as well as in heraldry. Their economic importance includes the use of their meat as venison, their skins as soft, strong buckskin, and their antlers as handles for knives. Deer hunting has been a popular activity since at least the Middle Ages, and remains an important business today.
Stag (noun)
An adult male deer.
Stag (noun)
A colt, or filly.
Stag (noun)
A romping girl.
Stag (noun)
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
Stag (noun)
An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
Stag (noun)
One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
Stag (noun)
The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
Stag (noun)
An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
“a stag dance; a stag party”
Stag (noun)
A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.
“The stag will be held in the hotel’s ballroom.”
Stag (noun)
A stag beetle (family ver=161006).
Stag (verb)
To act as a “stag”, an irregular dealer in stocks.
Stag (verb)
To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Stag (adverb)
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
“My brother went stag to prom because he couldn’t find a date.”
Buck (noun)
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
Buck (noun)
An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
Buck (noun)
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
Buck (noun)
A fop or dandy.
Buck (noun)
A black or Native American man.
Buck (noun)
A dollar (one hundred cents).
“Can I borrow five bucks?”
Buck (noun)
A rand (currency unit).
Buck (noun)
Money
“Corporations will do anything to make a buck.”
Buck (noun)
One hundred.
“The police caught me driving a buck forty on the freeway.”
“That skinny guy? C’mon, he can’t weigh more than a buck and a quarter.”
Buck (noun)
An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
Buck (noun)
Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
“pass the buck; the buck stops here”
Buck (noun)
The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
Buck (noun)
One million dollars.
Buck (noun)
A euro.
Buck (noun)
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
Buck (noun)
A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See [http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/additional-how-to/1009sr-making-a-wood-buck/ Street Rodder “Making a Wood Buck”].
Buck (noun)
synonym of buck dance
Buck (noun)
synonym of muletype of cocktail with ginger ale etc.
Buck (noun)
The beech tree.
Buck (noun)
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Buck (noun)
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Buck (verb)
To copulate, as bucks and does.
Buck (verb)
To bend; buckle.
Buck (verb)
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.
Buck (verb)
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
Buck (verb)
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.
Buck (verb)
To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
“The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.”
Buck (verb)
To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
“The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.”
Buck (verb)
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.
“The plane bucked a strong headwind.”
“Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.”
“John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He’s doing quite well.”
Buck (verb)
To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.
Buck (verb)
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
Buck (verb)
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter
Buck (verb)
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
Buck (verb)
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
Buck (verb)
To break up or pulverize, as ores.