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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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Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..

Buckled :: Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckl.

Keeper :: Keeper (n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap..

Swasher :: Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer..

Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.

Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..

Shield :: Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

Parbuckled :: Parbuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Parbuckl.

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..

Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

Infibulation :: Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock..

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc..

Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.