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One who holds up something.

Arts, Business, Construction, Crafts, Engineering, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Metalworking, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A bucker; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet (heated if necessary till it is soft), while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable-impulse pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.