"There are two ways, I understand, of sitting a bucking horse . . . one is `to follow the buck,' the other `to receive the buck.'"
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 55:
"The performance is quite peculiar to Australian horses, and no one who has not seen them at it would believe the rapid contortions of which they are capable. In bucking, a horse tucks his head right between his fore-legs, sometimes striking his jaw with his hind feet. The back meantime is arched like a boiled prawn's; and in this position the animal makes a series of tremendous bounds, sometimes forwards, sometimes sideways and backwards, keeping it up for several minutes at intervals of a few seconds."
<hw>Buck</hw>, <i>n</i>. See preceding verb.
1868. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 224:
"I never saw such bucks and jumps into the air as she [the mare] performed."
1886. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 206:
"For, mark me, he can sit a buck
For hours and hours together;
And never horse has had the luck
To pitch him from the leather."
<hw>Bucker</hw>, <hw>Buck-jumper</hw>, <i>n</i>. a horse given to bucking or buck-jumping.
1853. H. Berkeley Jones, `Adventures in Australia in 1852 and 1853,' [Footnote] p. 143: