BUCKLE
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Buc"kle (&unr_;), n. [OE. bocle buckle, boss of a shield, OF. bocle, F. boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a little cheek or mouth, dim. of bucca cheek; this boss or knob resembling a cheek.] 1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.
[1913 Webster]
3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
[1913 Webster]
Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face.
W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year.
Addison.
[1913 Webster]
4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see.
Churchill.
[1913 Webster]
Buc"kle (&unr_;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buckled (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n.] 1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
[1913 Webster]
2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
[1913 Webster]
3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish the project in time for the promised delivery date.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
4. To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]
Buc"kle (bŭk"k'l), v. i. 1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
[1913 Webster]
Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
Pepys.
[1913 Webster]
2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
[1913 Webster]
3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.
Pepys.
[1913 Webster]
4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
[1913 Webster]
The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
Latimer.
[1913 Webster]
In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
Shak.
[1913 Webster]
To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal.
[1913 Webster]
To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto.
Barrow.
[1913 Webster]
Before buckling to my winter's work.
J. D. Forbes.
[1913 Webster]
