dial. & U.S. [? corruption of butt, associated with BUCK sb.1] trans. To butt.
1750. Ellis, Country Housew., 174, in Britten, Old Country Wds. (E. D. S.). Many of these kickers are very apt and prone to buck other cows … for which reasons, all cows should have wooden tips fastened to the end of their horns.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 170. The pet lamb … was making believe to buck him with its head.
1848–60. in Bartlett.
