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Definition: BUCKER |
BUCKERNoun1. A horse or mule that bucks. 2. A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore. 3. One who bucks ore. |
Date "BUCKER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1937. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Collects samples of coal, ore, crushed stone, aggregate, sand or gravel from railroad cars, conveyors, stockpiles or mines and tests materials for conformance to specifications: Gathers samples from specified locations and transports samples to laboratory. Dumps material into sample divider to reduce volume of sample. Weighs material, using balance scale, and dumps sample into grinding machine to grind and blend sample or into screen testing machine to separate particles by size. Weighs segregated particles collected on each screen and computes percentage of each in total sample. Examines samples for presence of foreign matter and variation from color standard. Compiles reports indicating percentages of materials of specified size. Notifies management when materials do not meet specifications. May weigh, dry, and reweigh samples to determine moisture content of samples. May bag samples for testing at other locations. May perform chemical sedimentation or magnetic separation tests. May perform hardness test on pellets. May plot origin of samples on mine map. (references) |
| Saws felled trees into lengths: Places supporting limbs or poles under felled tree to avoid splitting underside and to prevent log from rolling. Cuts previously marked tree into logs, using power chain saw and ax. Drives wedges into cut behind saw blade to prevent binding saw. May cut limbs from felled trees. May mark felled tree for cutting into log lengths to obtain maximum value [LOG MARKER (logging)]. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Topeka, Kansas. William Massey, steel car repairer and rivet bucker, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BUCKER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bucker | Last name | 400 | 19,281 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BUCKER": feller-limber-bucker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bucker | 9 |
bucker jungmeister | 8 |
bucker jungman | 3 |
bucker student | 3 |
bucker jungmann | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BUCKER": buckeroo, buckeroos, buckers. (additional references) | |
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"BUCKER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bouckaert, bruckerl, bucer, bucher, bucka, Bucke, buckey, Buckow, fuckery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-r-u" | |
-1 letter: burke, cuber. | |
-2 letters: beck, buck, cube, cuke, curb, cure, ecru, kerb, reck, rube, ruck. | |
-3 letters: bur, cub, cue, cur, ecu, kue, reb, rec, rub, rue, uke, urb. | |
-4 letters: be, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k-r-u" | |
+1 letter: buckers, buckler, roebuck. | |
+2 letters: buckeroo, bucklers, reedbuck, roebucks, subclerk. | |
+3 letters: buckeroos, bucklered, buckramed, cocklebur, cyberpunk, parbuckle, reedbucks, rudbeckia, subclerks, trebucket, waterbuck. | |
+4 letters: backrushes, bucklering, cherublike, cockleburs, cyberpunks, lumberjack, parbuckled, parbuckles, rubberneck, rudbeckias, sourcebook, superblock, trebuckets, turnbuckle, turtleback, waterbucks. | |
+5 letters: blockbuster, bloodsucker, bushwhacker, huckleberry, lumberjacks, quarterback, rubbernecks, sourcebooks, superblocks, thumbsucker, turnbuckles, turtlebacks, unbracketed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 43 4B 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- -.-. -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U C K E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0043 004B 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365537453952 |
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