Definition of buckle

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

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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..
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..
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..
Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..
Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
Biscutate :: Biscutate (a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
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..
Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..
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..
Billet :: Billet (n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
Buckled :: Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckl.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..
Parbuckled :: Parbuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Parbuckl.
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..
Swasher :: Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
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