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BUCK'LE, n.

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.

2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.

3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.

BUCK'LE, v.t. To fasten with a buckle,or buckles.

1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.

2. To join in battle.

3. To confine or limit

A span buckles in his sum of age.



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BUCK'LE, n.

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.

2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.

3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.

BUCK'LE, v.t. To fasten with a buckle,or buckles.

1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.

2. To join in battle.

3. To confine or limit

A span buckles in his sum of age.

BUCK'LE, n. [Fr. boucle, a buckle, a ring, a knocker; boucler, to curl, to ring, to buckle; Ir. bucla; Arm. boucl. In Sp. bucle is hair curled. In W. baçu, baçellu, and baglu signify, to bend, hook, or grapple. Sax. bugan, to bow.]

  1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps of shoes, knee-bands, &c., or other straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.
  2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair. – Spectator.
  3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith, and service of the bearer. – Encyc.

BUCK'LE, v.i.

To bend; to bow; as, to buckle under life. – Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to apply with vigor; to engage with zeal. – Locke. To buckle in, to close in; to embrace or seize the body, as in a scuffle; a popular use in America. To buckle with, to encounter with embrace; to join in close combat. – Dryden.


BUCK'LE, v.t.

  1. To fasten with a buckle, or buckles.
  2. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor. – Spenser.
  3. To join in battle. – Hayward.
  4. To confine or limit. A span buckles in his sum of age. – Shak.

Buc"kle
  1. 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.
  2. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles] as, to buckle a harness.
  3. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

    Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
    Pepys.

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

    Knight.
  5. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
  6. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
  7. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

    Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face.
    W. Irving.

    Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year.
    Addison.

  8. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

    Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
    Fuller.

  9. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

    [Obs.]

    The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.
    Pepys.

  10. A contorted expression, as of the face.

    [R.]

    'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
    His features too in buckle see.
    Churchill.

  11. To join in marriage.

    [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

  12. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

    The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
    Latimer.

    In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
    Shak.

    To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal.

    To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto.
    Barrow.

    Before buckling to my winter's work.
    J. D. Forbes.

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Buckle

BUCK'LE, noun

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.

2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.

3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.

BUCK'LE, verb transitive To fasten with a buckle or buckles.

1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.

2. To join in battle.

3. To confine or limit

A span buckles in his sum of age.

BUCKLE, verb intransitive To bend; to bow; as, to buckle under life.

To buckle to, to bend to; to apply with vigor; to engage with zeal.

To buckle in, to close in; to embrace or seize the body, as in a scuffle; a popular use in America.

To buckle with, to encounter with embrace; to join in close combat.

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