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Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

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..

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

Fibula :: Fibula (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle..

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

Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.

Biscutate :: Biscutate (a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled..

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

Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.

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..

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

Buckle :: 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..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus..

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

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

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

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

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