buck

IPA(Pronunciation)

/bʌk/

Verb

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process. / To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

Japanese Meaning

（漉漂白工程の一環として）アルカリ溶液や石鹸水に浸す、漬ける、または煮沸すること。 / （衣服を）アルカリ溶液や石鹸水で洗うこと。後の用法では、流水中で石に打ちつけて洗うこと。

What is this buttons?

To simplify the bleaching, the workers buck the cotton in a lye bath until it loses its natural color.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

漂白を簡単にするために、作業員たちは綿を苛性ソーダ溶液に浸して自然な色が抜けるまで処理する。

Details

Sense（1）

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

Sense（2）

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

Sense（3）

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

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bucks

（ present singular third-person ）

bucking

（ participle present ）

bucked

（ participle past ）

bucked

（ past ）

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