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buckler
English
Etymology
From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *buccul?rius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?k.l?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?k.l?/
- Hyphenation: buck?ler
Noun
buckler (plural bucklers)
- One who buckles something.
- 1986, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service (page 6724)
- Bucklers will be assigned to buckle up drivers in the morning and make sure they stay buckled up.
- 1986, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service (page 6724)
- A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held with a hand (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 166.
- I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through; my sword hacked like a hand-saw -- ecce signum!
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 166.
- (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
- (zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- (zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobites.
- (nautical) 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.
Derived terms
- knee-buckler
Translations
Verb
buckler (third-person singular simple present bucklers, present participle bucklering, simple past and past participle bucklered)
- (transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
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buckle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?k(?)l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?k(?)l/
- Homophone: buccal (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Etymology 1
From a frequentative form of buck (“to bend, buckle”), of Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German origin, related to Dutch bukken (“to stoop, bend, yield, submit”), German bücken (“to stoop, bend”), Swedish bocka (“to buck, bow”), equivalent to buck +? -le. Compare Middle Dutch buchelen (“to strive, tug under a load”), dialectal German aufbückeln (“to raise or arch the back”).
Verb
buckle (third-person singular simple present buckles, present participle buckling, simple past and past participle buckled)
- (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
- It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
- (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
- 1664, Samuel Pepys, diary entry December 15
- The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.
- 1664, Samuel Pepys, diary entry December 15
- (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before King Edward
- The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before King Edward
- To buckle down; to apply oneself.
- 1700, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars
- To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.
- December 6, 1838, James David Forbes, letter to J. T. Harrison, Esq.
- Before buckling to my winter's work.
- Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
- 1700, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for holding a belt, etc”), from Old French boucle, bocle (“"boss (of a shield)" then "shield," later "buckle, metal ring”), from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca (“cheek”).
Noun
buckle (plural buckles)
- (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
- (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
- (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
- A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
- ear-locks in tight buckles on each side of a long lanthorn face
- lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year
- A contorted expression, as of the face.
- 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost
- 'Gainst nature arm'd by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.
- 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost
Translations
Verb
buckle (third-person singular simple present buckles, present participle buckling, simple past and past participle buckled)
- (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
- (Scotland) To unite in marriage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- buckle down
- buckle to
- buckle up
- turnbuckle
- sun kink (buckle in railway track)
Anagrams
- Lubeck, Lübeck
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