blucher

/ˈbluːkə/

Etymology

Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian general.

name

  1. In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble the fixed stake (an amount agreed upon before the game begins).
  2. A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343.
  3. A community within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.

noun

  1. A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
  2. A sturdy laced leather half-boot.“He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'”