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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 contorted expression, as of the face..

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

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..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus..

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

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

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

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

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

Scutiferous :: Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.

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

Bottine :: Bottine (n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children..

Infibulation :: Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock..

Target :: Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war..

Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.

Unbuckle :: Unbuckle (v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe..

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

Biscutate :: Biscutate (a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

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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