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buckle
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., bokelen , "to fasten with a buckle," from buckle (n.). Related: Buckled ; buckling . To buckle down "apply effort, settle down," (1874) is said to be a variant of knuckle down (see knuckle ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buckle \Buc"kle\, n. [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.] A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The buckle or clasp is a device used for fastening two loose ends, with one end attached to it and the other held by a catch in a secure but adjustable manner. Often taken for granted, the invention of the buckle has been indispensable in securing two ends ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: clasp ] [ant: unbuckle ] fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: crumple ] bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heatwave" [syn: heave , warp ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression. 2 (context transitive English) To make bend; to cause to become distorted. 3 (context intransitive figuratively ...
Usage examples of buckle.
Holding the edge of the platform with one hand, Alec undid his belt with the other and worked the end of it back through the buckle.
Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.
She could make a hundred pledges to herself, promise never to be with him again, but her will would always buckle in the end.
Then he fastened a head martingale on, and buckled it to the girths atwixt his fore legs.
All three turned to look for their axes, but the ground was heaving and buckling even more violently and their axes had completely disappeared underneath the loose covering of leaves and pines needles that littered the surface.
He buckled in and, with Bluey reading the checklist and pointing at things, got the engine started.
The charge of the blunderbuss had hit the scabbie just below the belt buckle.
Over kilts and loose shirts, all wore knee-long mail hauberks, belted at the hips with thick leather bands sporting huge buckles of brass or polished steel from which depended a sword of some descriptioneverything from native short swords and brass-hilted boarding cutlasses to European and Middle Eastern military brandsat least one each of dirk and dagger and one or more pistols, metal flasks of powder and cour bouilli boxes for lead balls and spanners.
The entire valley floor was under pressure, its ancient rock buckled and twisted by whatever forces lay below.
The land had been hideously buckled by some ancient calamity, raised into rocky bluffs and windswept ridges, and sunk deep into dry riverbeds, canyons and things deeper than canyons.
Thawing mud oozed through cracks in the masonry, and entire sections of tunnel wall had buckled inward from the pressure of moving earth.
Young Graig Lye, cousin to Bludd-slain Banron, buckled his sword harness so ferociously he struck sparks.
Ash dismounted her knees buckled, and Mai rushed forward to put a hand about her waist until she got her land legs.
Its shape, the way the rock was twisted and buckled, as if by some terrible calamity, was just how he imagined it would be.
Anna poked a finger through the wire door of the carrier buckled into the passenger side of the bench seat.