Crossword clues for buckled
buckled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buckle \Buc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n.]
To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
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To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date.
Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
--Fuller. To join in marriage. [Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: buckle)
Usage examples of "buckled".
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.
Anna came up a concrete walk, buckled into disparate stones, weeds pushing boldly through ever-widening cracks.
He breathed easier once she was safely buckled on her side of the car.
It must be hard lines for a woman to stand by, in a church or anywhere else, and see the man she loves given away, for good and all, buckled hard and fast to another woman.
The doctor went upstairs, and buckled on a long-necked pair of old-fashioned spurs, and Mrs.
Instantly she felt a pang of desire so intense it made her gasp in surprise, as her knees buckled and she felt a flush of pleasure spread through her thighs.
She buckled herself in behind him, thinking Zoe had been terribly right about Tigger.
The ground on either side of the fissure had buckled and thrust upward so that the crevice was bordered by mounds of dirt and rubble.
He expelled the air from his lungs and buckled his knees, pulling as hard as he could.