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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Crupper :: Crupper (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards..

Buckler-headed :: Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler.

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..

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

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..

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..

Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..

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

Billet :: Billet (n.) A strap which enters a buckle.

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..

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

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

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