different between buckler vs scutate
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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scutate
English
Etymology
From Latin scut?tus, from scutum (“shield”).
Adjective
scutate (comparative more scutate, superlative most scutate)
- Shaped like a shield or buckler.
- Of, pertaining to or covered with scutes.
Anagrams
- East Cut, acutest
Latin
Adjective
sc?t?te
- vocative masculine singular of sc?t?tus
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