Buck
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A short dictionary entry on the word 'buck' in the sense of an alkaline lye in which clothes are steeped to cleanse or whiten them. It gives the etymology (Swedish, Gothic and Old French roots), the senses of the clothes so steeped and of the verb meaning to steep or wash in lye, and Shakespeare quotations illustrating each.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
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