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.
Buckle(n.) To join in marriage.
Buckle(v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Buckle(v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
Buckle(v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Buckle(v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
Buckled(imp. & p. p.) of Buckle
Buckling(a.) Wavy; curling, as hair.
Buckling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buckle

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