buckle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for fastening; ornamental clasp; boss of a shield; a shield, buckler; (figurative) means of defence”) [and other forms], from Old French boucle, bocle (“spiked metal ring for fastening; boss of a shield; a shield”) [and other forms], from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet; boss of a shield”) (from bucca (“soft part of the cheek”)).
Noun etymology 1, noun sense 2 (“great conflict or struggle”) is probably derived from verb etymology 1, verb sense 1.2.1 (“to apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work”).
The verb is derived from Middle English bokelen, bukelen (“to fasten (something) with a buckle or clasp; to fasten, make fast; to wrap; to arch the body”) [and other forms], from bokel (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
In verb etymology 1, verb sense 1.2.1, the sense “to apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work” was derived from the now obsolete sense “to equip (oneself) for a battle, etc.”, and originally alluded to armour being buckled on to the body.
Inflected forms:
form: buckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: buckle
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: buckle
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: buckle
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: bucklest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: buckledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: buckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buckleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: buckle
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: buckle
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: buckle
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: buckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
pos: noun
examples: Svveet Hellen I muſt vvoe you, / To helpe vn-arme our Hector: his ſtubborne bucles / VVith this your vvhite enchaunting fingers touch; / Shall more obey then to the edge of ſteele, / Or force of Greekiſh ſinevves: […]
Tongue of my shoe-buckle broke. […] Bought a new head to my cane, and a tongue to my buckle. Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
My uncle furthermore remarked that it wore high heeled shoes, after an ancient fashion, with paste or diamond buckles, that sparkled as though they were alive.
gloss: A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: He must be forging the buckle-screw, sir, now. […] Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
gloss: A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A great conflict or struggle.
pos: noun
gloss: To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Iuſt. [i.e., the Lord Chief Justice, William Gascoigne] VVel, the truth is ſir Iohn, you liue in great infamy. / Falſt[aff]. He that buckles himſelfe in my belt cannot liue in leſſe.
[H]ovv briefe the Life of man / runs his erring pilgrimage, / That the ſtretching of a ſpan, / buckles in his ſumme of age.
It is a ſigne that a man hath to doe vvith a ſtrong enemie vvhen he buckleth on all his harneſſe, and calleth together all his ſtrength for oppoſition.
[T]here vvere tvvo ſtrong Staples fixed upon that ſide of my Box vvhich had no VVindovv, and into vvhich the Servant vvho uſed to carry me on horſeback vvoud put a leathern Belt, and buckle it about his VVaſte.
Buckle this harness on, that, being armed, / I may defend the entrance.
Out he pulls his pedigree, on he buckles his sword, gives his beaver a brush, and cocks it in the face of all creation.
Thy daughter, Sir Hugh—eh! whom thou carriest off from some unlucky wight, and bucklest up in this bespangled gear?
gloss: To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
reflexive
transitive
examples: For this cauſe whẽ the faithfull find themſelues to haue ouercome Satan in one incounter by the grace of Chriſt, let them take good heede that they imagin not their battel to be at an end: but rather let them buckle themſelues to a new charge, and valiantly aduance themſelues to handſtrokes againe.
He left his lofty ſteede to aide him neare, / And buckling ſoone him ſelfe, gan fiercely fly / Vppon that Carle, to ſaue his friend from ieopardy.
To be breef, haukes ſeeme not to differ, ſaue that all of them doe not flie at all kinde of birds and foules alike, for in deede euery one of them buckleth himſelfe vnto the bird, to the flying vvhereof he is giuen and addicted, and not to others.
Hereupon [Thomas] Cartwright buckled himself to the employment, and was very forward in the pursuance thereof.
It chargeth on us contentedly and patiently to undergo whatever God doth impose of burden or sufferance, so that 'patience have its perfect work;' and it is a crabbed work to bend our stiff inclinations, to quell our refractory passions, to make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.
… At the very time you were writing I was on a visit to the North of England, by way of a little stretch, before buckling to my winter's work.
gloss: To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.
pos: verb
tags: UK
figuratively
transitive
examples: [T]ake my advice, and marry in the firſt place vvhere vve can find a curate; or make uſe of our friend the licentiate, vvho vvill buckle you handſomely.
They were hailed […] as a young strapping Irishman, conveying an ancient maiden to Dr Rigmarole's at Redriffe, who buckles beggars for a tester and a dram of Geneva.
gloss: To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Sir John diſdainfully looking at him, ſaluted him vvith theſe VVords, Farevvel Sir Knave, (for it is to be noted that it is common vvith him to term many honeſt Men ſo). My Brother anſvvered, Sir, You are no leſs. VVhereat one of Sir John’s Men buckled to fight vvith him. But Sir John ſtayed his Man.
The firſt thing vve doe in the morning before vve either eate or drink, or buckle about any vvorldly buſineſſe, is to put our clothes about vs: vve ſay, vve are not ready, till vve haue done that.
[For a man] to be deceiued, vvith too long Shadovves, […] And ſo to ſhoot off before the time; Or to teach dangers to come on, by ouer early Buckling tovvards them, is another Extreme.
[T]he Epicure buckles to ſtudy, vvhen ſhame, or the deſire to recommend himſelf to his Miſtreſs, ſhall make him uneaſie in the vvant of any ſort of knovvledge.
At laſt Eſquire South buckl'd to, to aſſiſt his Friend Nic.
Lickity, lickity, switch, we came to the ford, and Chiquita / Buckled right down to her work, […]
Then the sergeant let us out, and introducing us to a pile of wood and saws and axes, informed us that when this had been cut up into firewood we should get our breakfast. He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done; when we were admitted to the kitchen and given a really good meal.
I confess that the recollection of what this bell could do when it buckled down to it gave me pause as I stood that night at 12.30 p.m. prompt beside the outhouse where it was located.
gloss: To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.
pos: verb
tags: UK
figuratively
intransitive
examples: Yet thou, they ſay, for Marriage do'ſt provide: / Is this an Age to Buckle vvith a Bride?
gloss: To participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
figuratively
intransitive
examples: So they buckled together, and the Heithen were diſcomfited, and fled ouer the playne felde: but the hynmoſt of them were ſlayne.
VVell, it chanced that the Lord Protector [Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester] and he [Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester] fell out, and the Biſhop vvould bear nothing at all vvith him, but played me the Satrapa; ſo the Regent of France vvas fain to be ſent for from beyond the ſeas, to ſet them at one, and go betvveen them: For the Biſhop vvas as able and ready to buckle vvith the Lord Protector as he vvas vvith him.
In ſingle Combat thou ſhalt buckle vvith me; / And if thou vanquiſheſt, thy vvords are true, / Othervviſe I renounce all confidence.
[B]eing armed vvith patience vvhen thou buckleſt vvith affliction or pouertie, hunger, or any croſſe ſoeuer thou canſt ſay, it is nothing to ouercome them.
And as the vvhole armies vvere thus engag'd, and each man cloſely buckl'd to his antagoniſt, the battles vvere commonly very bloody, and great ſlaughter made on both ſides, but eſpecially on the vanquiſh'd.
Algerine Porpoise […] Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark.
Derived words: belt buckle
bread buckle
buckle hat
buckleless
cover the buckle
kneebuckle
scleral buckle
swash someone's buckle
turnbuckle
buckleable
buckle-beggar
buckle bunny
buckle down
buckle in
buckle over
buckler
buckle to
buckle up
rebuckle
unbuckle
buckled
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: إِبْزِيم
roman: ʔibzīm
lang: Arabic
word: ابزيم
roman: abzīm
lang: Armenian
word: ճարմանդ
roman: čarmand
lang: Old Armenian
word: ճարմանդ
roman: čarmand
lang: Old Armenian
word: շիգղ
roman: šigł
lang: Azerbaijani
word: toqqa
lang: Belarusian
word: спра́жка
roman: sprážka
lang: Belarusian
word: за́сцежка
roman: záscježka
lang: Bulgarian
word: катарама
roman: katarama
lang: Bulgarian
word: тока
roman: toka
lang: Burmese
word: ထိကပေါက်
roman: hti.ka.pauk
lang: Catalan
word: sivella
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 搭扣
roman: dākòu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 扣環 /扣环
roman: kòuhuán
lang: Czech
word: přezka
lang: Czech
word: spona
lang: Danish
word: spænde
lang: Dutch
word: gesp
lang: Esperanto
word: buko
lang: Estonian
word: pannal
lang: Faroese
word: spenni
lang: Finnish
word: solki
lang: French
word: boucle
lang: Galician
word: fibela
lang: Georgian
word: აბზინდა
roman: abzinda
lang: German
word: Schnalle
lang: Greek
word: αγκράφα
roman: agkráfa
lang: Ancient Greek
word: περόνη
roman: perónē
lang: Hebrew
word: אבזם
roman: avzám
lang: Hindi
word: बकसुआ
roman: baksuā
lang: Hungarian
word: csat
lang: Hungarian
word: kapocs
lang: Icelandic
word: sylgja
lang: Ido
word: buklo
lang: Indonesian
word: gesper
lang: Ingrian
word: präski
lang: Irish
word: búcla
lang: Italian
word: fibbia
lang: Japanese
word: バックル
roman: bakkuru
lang: Japanese
word: 尾錠
roman: bijō
lang: Japanese
word: 締め金
roman: shimegane
lang: Kazakh
word: айылбас
roman: aiylbas
lang: Kazakh
word: тоға
roman: toğa
lang: Khmer
word: កន្លាស់
roman: kɑɑkɑnlah
lang: Khmer
word: គន្លឹះ
roman: kɔɔkŭənlɨh
lang: Korean
word: 버클
roman: beokeul
lang: Korean
word: 솔기
roman: solgi
lang: Kyrgyz
word: таралга
roman: taralga
lang: Lao
word: ຫົວສາຍແອວ
roman: hūa sāi ʼǣu
lang: Lao
word: ຜູກຄຽນແອວ
roman: phūk khīan ʼǣu
lang: Latin
word: buccula
lang: Latvian
word: sprādze
lang: Macedonian
word: тока
roman: toka
lang: Malay
word: gesper
lang: Malay
word: kancing
lang: Māori
word: kati
lang: Māori
word: tāpine
lang: Māori
word: toromoka
lang: Maranao
word: bakel
lang: Mongolian
word: горхи
roman: gorxi
lang: Nepali
word: बेल्ट
roman: belṭa
lang: Nepali
word: पेटी
roman: peṭī
lang: Norman
word: bliouque
lang: Norwegian
word: spenne
lang: Persian
word: ابزیم
roman: abzim
lang: Persian
word: سگک
roman: sagak
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schnal
lang: Polish
word: sprzączka
lang: Polish
word: klamra
lang: Portuguese
word: fivela
lang: Romanian
word: cataramă
lang: Russian
word: бля́ха
roman: bljáxa
lang: Russian
word: пря́жка
roman: prjážka
lang: Russian
word: застёжка
roman: zastjóžka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ко̏пча
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шна́ла
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kȍpča
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šnála
lang: Sinhalese
word: ගාංචුව
roman: gāṁcuwa
lang: Slovak
word: pracka
lang: Slovak
word: sponka
lang: Slovene
word: zaponka
lang: Spanish
word: hebilla
lang: Swahili
word: bakoli
lang: Swedish
word: bältesspänne
lang: Swedish
word: spänne
lang: Tagalog
word: hebilya
lang: Tagalog
word: pamuko
lang: Thai
word: หัวเข็มขัด
roman: hǔua-kěm-kàt
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆབ་རྩེ
roman: chab rtse
lang: Turkish
word: toka
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوقه
roman: toka
lang: Ukrainian
word: пря́жка
roman: prjážka
lang: Ukrainian
word: за́стібка
roman: zástibka
lang: Uzbek
word: to'qa
lang: Vietnamese
word: khóa
lang: Walloon
word: blouke
lang: Welsh
word: bwcwl