blucher

plural bluchers

1. historicalA 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.'

   1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13

1. card gamesIn 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.

plural Bluchers

1. alternativeAlternative form of blucher.