The Collaborative International Dictionary
Water buck \Wa"ter buck`\ (Zo["o]l.) A large, heavy antelope ( Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok.
Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the leche ( Kobus leche), which has similar habits.
Buck \Buck\ (b[u^]k), n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b[=u]za, Skr. bukka. [root]256. Cf. Butcher, n.]
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The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind.
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A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
The leading bucks of the day.
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A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
Blue buck. See under Blue.
Water buck, a South African variety of antelope ( Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
Usage examples of "water buck".
To one side of the water Buck stood, his arms folded across his chest, armed only with his belt knife.
Instead, Scarlett looked over the foot of the bed each day, appraising their improvement with a hateful new gleam in her slanting green eyes and talked about making beds, preparing food, carrying water buck.
They gave him the jobs of cleaning the camps, of handing out the slops to the prisoners, of filling the water buck.
Here of a night might always be found either Sabor or Numa crouching in the dense foliage of the surrounding jungle awaiting an antelope or a water buck for their meal.