Definition of buckle

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

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Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
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 (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..
Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.
Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..
Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
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..
Fermillet :: Fermillet (n.) A buckle or clasp.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..
Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..
Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..
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..
Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.
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