A large basket used to catch eels. Also eel-bucks, and attrib., as in buck-stage.
1851. Kingsley, Yeast, iii. 43. The river fell over a high weir, with all its appendages of bucks and hatchways, and eel-baskets. Ibid., 53. Help me out along the buck-stage, said Lancelot.
1857–8. Act 29 & 30 Vict., lxxxix. Preamb., Certain persons … claim a Right … to fish with Nets or Bucks in Parts of the Thames.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, iii. (1880), 90. Large baskets called ‘bucks.’
1885. Sat. Rev., 21 Nov., 673/1. Snigs are only taken in the eel-bucks if they are set with the stream.
