What is "bucklered"

Usage examples of "bucklered".

As many men as there are around her, so many knights has such a one, ready bucklered for her service, should occasion require such services.

In the dry sand of the arroyo floor old bones and broken shapes of painted pot­tery and graven on the rocks above them pictographs of horse and cougar and turtle and the mounted Spaniards helmeted and bucklered and contemptuous of stone and silence and time itself.

I would have bucklered thee against such danger with my own bosom, as freely as ever I exposed it to the shafts which had otherwise reached thy life.

How much more he could have accomplished, thus bucklered for the fight!