buck ((1))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a male North American Indian.

Quotations

1800

I . . . kept the woman to be disposed of in the season when the Peace River bucks look out for women, in the month of May.

1900

[They] were jostled in a . . . crowd of yelling, gun-firing bucks.

1957

. . . Sunday had married a buck and was now full of papoose.