bucker

¹ American  

[buhk-er] / ˈbʌk ər /

noun

1. a horse that bucks.

2. a person who bucks rivets.

3. a person employed to carry, shovel, lift, or load coal, farm produce, etc.

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bucker ² American  

[buhk-er] / ˈbʌk ər /

noun

Canadian.

1. (in lumbering) a person who saws felled trees into shorter, more easily hauled lengths.

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Etymology

Origin of bucker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; buck ² + -er ¹

Origin of bucker²

First recorded in 1905–10; buck ³ in the sense “to cut or saw wood with a bucksaw” + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“When you’re riding a bull, you never know if you’re really getting a bucker or one that’s a little bit more easygoing,” Jinkins said in an interview.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

And the bucker will just throw—it’s oftentimes in these really treacherous mountainous terrain area—all the growth down and out of the way.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2021

“I kicked that bucker crazy, now I’m laid-back lazy,” the Montanan writes in his poem “Riding Double-Wild.”

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2015

The calf looked promising at first, but proved to be a halfhearted bucker.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2014

“You ain’t no skinner. They’s no call for a bucker to come into the barn at all. You ain’t no skinner. You ain’t got nothing to do with the horses.”

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck