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BUCK'LE, n.

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.

2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.

3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.

BUCK'LE, v.t. To fasten with a buckle,or buckles.

1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.

2. To join in battle.

3. To confine or limit

A span buckles in his sum of age.
1913 Definition
Buckle (buckle)
n.((?))
Buc"kle
[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.

  5. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles] as, to buckle a harness.
  6. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
  7. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

    Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
    Fuller.

  8. To join in marriage.
    [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

  9. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

    Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
    Pepys.

  10. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
  11. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
    [Obs.]

    The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.
    Pepys.

  12. 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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