Buckle

Definition of Buckle

Buc´kle   Pronunciation: bŭk´k'l
n.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.
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.
'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see.
- Churchill.
v. t.1.To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
[imp. & p. p. Buckled ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Buckling.]
2.To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
3.To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; - formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; - as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date.
Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
- Fuller.
4.To join in marriage.
v. 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.
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.
- 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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