Buckle :: 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..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To join in marriage.

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Buckled :: Buckled (imp. & p. p.) of Buckl.

Buckler :: 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 :: Buckler (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

Buckler :: 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 :: Buckler (v. t.) To shield; to defend.

Buckler-headed :: Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler.

Buckling :: Buckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buckl.

Buckling :: Buckling (a.) Wavy; curling, as hair..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

Parbuckled :: Parbuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Parbuckl.

Parbuckling :: Parbuckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parbuckl.

Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.

Swashbuckler :: Swash (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Swingebuckler :: Swinge (n.) Power; sway; influence.

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc..

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