English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Buckle (v. i.)

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

Buckle (v. i.)

To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.

Buckle (v. i.)

To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

Buckle (v. i.)

To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Buckle (n.)

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

Buckle (n.)

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.

Buckled (imp. & p. p.)

of Buckle

Buckler (v. t.)

To shield; to defend.

Buckler (n.)

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.

Buckler (n.)

The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

Buckler (n.)

One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

Buckler (n.)

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

Buckler-headed (a.)

Having a head like a buckler.

Buckling (a.)

Wavy; curling, as hair.

Buckling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Buckle

Buckra (n.)

A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

Buckra (a.)

White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.

Buckram (n.)

A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

Buckram (a.)

Stiff; precise.

Buckram (n.)

A plant. See Ramson.