buck v To purloin; to collect or gather surreptitiously; STING.
   P 19-55 He bucked a barrel last night for the bonfire [on November 5thl. 1964 Evening Telegram 27 June, p. 10 I knowed her old man bucked many a bag of coal from the railway. T 181-65 When we get a chance some fellers may get a fish off the cover or buck a one, to tell the truth of it. We'd say buck was stealing [but] I don't know whether 'twas [considered] stealing or whether 'twasn't then. 1966 FARIS 207 Traditionally the ingredients for a 'scoff are 'bucked'—that is, taken from someone else's garden or cellar. 'Bucking' for a 'scoff,' however, is sanctioned, within limits; it is not 'stealing' for a meal. 1977 RUSSELL 169 He wasn't stealin' carrots, he said, he was buckin' carrots. Accordin' to him 'twas two different things. Perhaps he's right. 'Did you ever buck anything, Uncle Mose,' he asked me. I was goin' to say 'no' when I remembered a few things. Things like the cherry tree in Uncle Zeke's garden up in Fortune Bay. Things like my trips to St Pierre. Was that stealin'? or buckin'? 1979 Evening Telegram 25 Aug, p. 8 'The western Canadians ... are so well brought up that they don't even have fences anywhere.' 'My land,' sez Mrs Connors, 'that must be grand, but I suppose they wouldn't leave their wash out all night: God knows who would come along and buck that.'

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