Definition of buckle

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

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Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..
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..
Fermillet :: Fermillet (n.) A buckle or clasp.
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..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
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..
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..
Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.
Billet :: Billet (n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
Parbuckled :: Parbuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Parbuckl.
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
Infibulation :: Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock..
Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.
Biscutate :: Biscutate (a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
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..
Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..
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