Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of buckle is as below...

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..

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

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

Fermillet :: Fermillet (n.) A buckle or clasp.

Shield :: Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler..

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

Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular