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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Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal..
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..
Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..
Matachin :: Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..
Swingeing :: Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Buckler :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.
Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.
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..
Infibulation :: Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock..
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..
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..
Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..
Swasher :: Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer..
Buckler :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..
Billet :: Billet (n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
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