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Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

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

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

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

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

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

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

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..

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..

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

Swasher :: Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer..

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..

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

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..

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..

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..

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

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..

Fibula :: Fibula (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle..

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

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