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Webster 1913 Edition

Buckle

Buc′kle

,
Noun.
[OE.
bocle
buckle, boss of a shield, OF.
bocle
, F.
boucle
, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L.
buccula
a little cheek or mouth, dim. of
bucca
cheek; this boss or knob resembling a cheek.]
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.
A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
Knight.
3.
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.
4.
A contorted expression, as of the face.
[R.]
’Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in
buckle
see.
Churchill.

Buc′kle

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Buckled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Buckling
.]
[OE.
boclen
, F.
boucler
. See
Buckle
,
Noun.
]
1.
To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles;
as, to
buckle
a harness
.
2.
To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
Cartwright
buckled
himself to the employment.
Fuller.
4.
To join in marriage.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.

Buc′kle

(bŭk′k’l)
,
Verb.
I.
1.
To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Buckled
with the heat of the fire like parchment.
Pepys.
2.
To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
3.
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
[Obs.]
The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to
buckle
.
Pepys.
4.
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.
Shakespeare
To buckle to
,
to bend to; to engage with zeal.
To make our sturdy humor
buckle
there
to
.
Barrow.
Before
buckling to
my winter's work.
J. D. Forbes.

Webster 1828 Edition

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.
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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