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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1881

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BUCKY, n. The sluice of a mill-pond.Gall. 1881 J. K. Scott Gall. Gleanings 154:
I had far better flung't in the dam frae the bucky.

[Prob. the place where the water gushes out, from Buck, v.¹]

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