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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..

Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.

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

Parbuckled :: Parbuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Parbuckl.

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..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue..

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

Biscutate :: Biscutate (a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.

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