Obs. [Abbreviated from the full names BUCK-WHEAT, BUCK-MAST.]
1. = BUCK-WHEAT.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 40 b. As soone as your rape seede is of [= off] … you may sowe Bucke.
1610. Markham, Masterp., I. li. 107. Giuing them a certaine graine which we call bucke.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (Catalog. Seeds), Buck, or French wheat.
b. Running buck: corn bindweed.
1580. Baret, Alv., B 1424. Renning Bucke or binde corne, a weede so called like vnto withwinde.
2. = BUCK-MAST; beech-mast.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva (1812), I. 138. In some parts of France they now grind the buck in mills.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. s.v. Beech-tree.
