different between buckling vs fasten

English

Etymology 1

From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k.?l.??/

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. The act of fastening a buckle.
2. (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
3. The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.

Adjective

buckling (comparative more buckling, superlative most buckling)

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

buckling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

buckling

1. present participle of buckle

Etymology 2

buck +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k.l??/
• Rhymes: -?kl??
• Hyphenation: buck?ling

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
   • 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ?ISBN, page 715,

     If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.

   • 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine,^[2] Blackwell Publishing, ?ISBN, page 429,

     The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.

   • 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, ?ISBN, page 161,

     I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.

Usage notes

• (young male goat): Not all sources agree on the exact age range for which this term applies; for example, one source applies it to kids as young as six months.

Etymology 3

From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. Smoked herring.

Coordinate terms

• bloater
• kipper

Translations

See also

• stockfish

References

• van Veen, P.A.F.; van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht; Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, ?ISBN
• W. Martin; G[uy] A. J. Tops, et al. (1998) Van Dale Groot Woordenboek Engels–Nederlands [Van Dale Great Dictionary, English–Dutch], volume I, 3rd edition, Utrecht; Antwerp: Van Dale Lexicografie, ?ISBN.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastin?n (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast +? -en.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??s?n/, /?f??sn?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæs?n/, /?fæsn?/

Verb

fasten (third-person singular simple present fastens, present participle fastening, simple past and past participle fastened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.
   • May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43

     The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.

2. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

Derived terms

• fastening
• unfasten

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Stefan, nefast

German

Etymology 1

Middle High German vasten, from Old High German fast?n, from Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fastn?/, /?fast?n/
• Homophone: fassten
• Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten

Verb

fasten (weak, third-person singular present fastet, past tense fastete, past participle gefastet, auxiliary haben)

1. to fast

Conjugation

Related terms

• Fasten
• Fastenzeit
• Fastnacht

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?st?n/
• Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten

Verb

fasten

1. inflection of fasen:
   1. first/third-person plural preterite
   2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II

Further reading

• “fasten” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• fasta

Noun

fasten m or f

1. definite masculine singular of faste

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.

Verb

fast?n

1. to fast

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle High German: vasten
  • Cimbrian: bastan
  • German: fasten
  • Luxembourgish: faaschten
  • Yiddish: ???????? (fastn)