What's the difference between bucker and ducker?

Bucker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bucks ore.
  • (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
  • (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A retrospective case series of fatal accidents occurring among those employed as fallers or buckers in the British Columbia Forest Industry was studied.

Ducker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
  • (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following is a case history dealing with usage of the Swanson-Ducker designed Silastic nerve caps for the treatment of amputation-type neuromas.
  • (2) If one excludes the now ancient vagal theories (CAMERON 1949; CAMPBELL, 1949) which were never confirmed, all of the most recent experimental works (SARNOFF, 1952; DUCKER, 1968; LUISADA, 1967; MORITZ, 1974) confirm the adrenergic disorder of central origin during neurogenic A.P.E.
  • (3) Another said : "He is a cockney wide-boy agent, not unlike Jonathan in many ways: a wheeler, a dealer, a ducker, a diver.
  • (4) Combining the roles of chief executive and council leader also risks creating additional turmoil if the authority changes hands, argues Ann Ducker, leader of South Oxfordshire district council.
  • (5) At low iron(III)-concentrations (less than 10(-5) M) the fungus Aspergillus viridi-nutans Ducker & Thrower excretes desferri-ferricrocin as the main sideramine into the culture medium.
  • (6) Ken Ducker Yorkley, Gloucestershire • Are these letters about dispiriting phrases designed to “raise awareness”?
  • (7) In spite of the cockney 'ducker and diver' front, I think of him like an old-fashioned Hollywood impresario."
  • (8) Both prosecution and, to some extent, defence have tapped into the perception of the best English manager of the modern era over the past two weeks, the crown seeking to expose Redknapp as a ducker and diver with all the nous required to set up an anonymous offshore bank account .

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