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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buckle \Buc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buckled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Buckling}.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See {Buckle}, n.]
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.
3. To prepare for action to apply with vigor and
earnestness; -- generally used reflexively
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buckle \Buc"kle\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buckle \Buc"kle\ (b[u^]k"k'l), 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. [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 --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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
buckle
n 1: fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has
loose prong
2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: {warp}]
v 1: fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: {clasp}] [ant: {unbuckle}]
2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: {crumple}]
3: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The
highway buckled during the heatwave" [syn: {heave}, {warp}]
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