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To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
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.
of Buckle
To shield; to defend.
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.
The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
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.
Having a head like a buckler.
Wavy; curling, as hair.
of Buckle
A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
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.
Stiff; precise.
A plant. See Ramson.