buck bean

Some things have changed a lot since 1984 when the errant Father Buck wrote to his young love interest.

G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

We squatted in the long grass and buck-brush, listening, and a few seconds later heard a horse snort distinctly.

Once even a blue bean (a bullet) made sad work with my head, and my fist has got a deuce of a smashing.

Brazilian bean; the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, indigenous to America.

Called "Brazilian bean," because it resembled a bean then known in France by that name.