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

Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

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

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

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

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..

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

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