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Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

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..

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

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

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

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..

Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.

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

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

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

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