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

Billet :: Billet (n.) A strap which enters a buckle.

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

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

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..

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

Billet :: Billet (n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..

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

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

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