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buck: quantity of clothes put through the ‘buck’ or lye; hence, quantity washed 2H6 IV. ii. 52 “she washes bucks” ; so buck-basket, dirty-linen basket Wiv. III. iii. 2, &c.; bucking, washing Wiv. III. iii. 140.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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