DCHP-3

bucking

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the work done by a bucker.

See: bucker

Quotations

1908
The expression of such sentiments as these only makes them dissatisfied with the bucking of wood and breaking of stone, and generates socialism. . . .
1919
The cost of falling and bucking by day wages was . . . $1.20 per M log scale.
1966
Falling can be dangerous; 20 of the 64 deaths in the woods in 1964 were in falling and bucking. . . .