This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more
Meaning Of 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.
n.
A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a
plate of sheet metal.
n.
A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn;
also, the state of being curled.
n.
A contorted expression, as of the face.
n.
To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to
buckle a harness.
n.
To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
n.
To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness;
-- generally used reflexively.
n.
To join in marriage.
v. i.
To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to
curl; to kink.
v. i.
To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
v. i.
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
v. i.
To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close
fight; to struggle; to contend.