Definition of buckle

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

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Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..
Crupper :: Crupper (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards..
Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..
Chape :: Chape (n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap..
Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
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..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Bottine :: Bottine (n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children..
Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches..
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..
Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.
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..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled..
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..
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