Definition of buckle

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Buckle (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue..

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Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..
Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..
Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..
Biscutate :: Biscutate (a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
Buckled :: Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckl.
Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..
Fibula :: Fibula (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..
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