Definition of buckle

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Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

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Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..
Buckled :: Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckl.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
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..
Swasher :: Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer..
Infibulation :: Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock..
Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
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..
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..
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 yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..
Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..
Fermillet :: Fermillet (n.) A buckle or clasp.
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