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    A buckle is the metal or plastic piece on a belt, shoe, or strap that it closed - you push a pin through a hole, or click two parts together. As a verb, "to buckle" means to something with this, like "buckle your seatbelt." There is also a very different use: when something "buckles," it bends or gives way under weight or pressure, like a shelf buckling under too many books, or someone's knees buckling because they are exhausted or scared. "Buckle down" is a separate phrase meaning to start working hard and seriously.

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組成Probably from an old French word (boucle) for the strap that crossed the cheek on a helmet - though word origins this old are never fully certain.

原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

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Bucklename

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    A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buckles.

bucklenoun詞源 1/ˈbʌkəl/

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    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.

    • 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.
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    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.

    • 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.
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    governmentheraldryhobbiesA 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.

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    A great conflict or struggle.

buckleverb詞源 1/ˈbʌkəl/

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    To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.

    • 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.
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    To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.

    • 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.
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    To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.

    • [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.
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    To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.

    • 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.
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    To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.

    • Yet thou, they ſay, for Marriage do'ſt provide: / Is this an Age to Buckle vvith a Bride?
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    dialectalTo participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.

    • 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.

buckleverb詞源 2/ˈbʌkəl/

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    To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.

    • [R]eaſon doth buckle and bovve the Mind vnto the Nature of things.
    • Throw all their ſcandalous malice upon me? / 'Cauſe I am poor, deform'd and ignorant, / And like a Bow buckl'd and bent together, / By ſome more ſtrong in miſchiefs then my ſelf?
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    obsoleteTo curl (hair).

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    Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.

    • And as the vvretch vvhoſe feuer-vveakned ioynts, / Like ſtrengthleſſe hinges buckle vnder life, / […] euen ſo my limbes, / VVeakened vvith griefe, being novv enragde vvith griefe, / Are thrice themſelues: […]
    • And thus by placing Collers vvhere ever they find the VVork buckle, they (as aforeſaid) vvith Sharp Tools, tender touches, ſomevvhat a looſe and fine String, vveak Bovv, and great care and diligence vvork the vvhole Cilinder dovvn as ſmall as they liſt, either vvith Moldings or other VVork upon it, as beſt likes them.
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    Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.

    • It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
    • Mr. Gray did tell me to-night, for certain, that the Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle; and that one man in this Kingdom did tell the King that he is offered £40,000 to make a peace, and others have been offered money also.

bucklenoun詞源 2/ˈbʌkəl/

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    A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.

    • We can’t use that saw any more. It’s got a buckle in its blade.
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    businessconstructionmanufacturingA distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.

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    bakingcookingfoodUsually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.

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    obsoleteA curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also (countable, uncountable), the state of hair being curled in this manner.

    • The greatest beau at our next county sessions was dressed in a most monstrous flaxen periwig, that was made in king William's reign. The wearer of it goes, it seems, in his own hair when he is at home, and lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year, that he may put it on upon occasion to meet the judges in it.
    • For vvhat's a VVoman, vvhen her Virtue's gone? / A Coat vvithout its Lace; VVig out of Buckle; / A Stocking vvith a Hole in't.

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