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(n.)
- A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
Buckle(n.)
- A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
Buckle(n.)
- A contorted expression, as of the face.
Buckle(n.)
- To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
Buckle(n.)
- To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
Buckle(n.)
- To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.