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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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..

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..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

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

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..

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

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..

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..

Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..

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..

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

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