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Buckle   /bˈəkəl/   Listen
Buckle

noun
1.
Fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong.
2.
A shape distorted by twisting or folding.  Synonym: warp.
verb
(past & past part. buckled; pres. part. buckling)
1.
Fasten with a buckle or buckles.  Synonym: clasp.  Antonym: unbuckle.
2.
Fold or collapse.  Synonym: crumple.
3.
Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat.  Synonyms: heave, warp.



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"Buckle" Quotes from Famous Books



... information from her little catalogue of Prices, under the head of moist sugar, and lending me, to copy at home, a large old English D which she had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle. ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... tell you," returned the other. "Don't growl at yourself so much. You'll find your work and buckle down to it, some of these days. Maybe you'll find it out here—who knows? Of course Mr. Seldon would see to it that you got any post you would want in ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... Babbicombe, from which, after three years, he moved to Bideford. He made frequent visits to London, where he was the guest of his publisher, John Parker, at whose table he met Arthur Helps, John and Richard Doyle, Cornewall Lewis, Richard Trench, then Dean of Westminster, and Henry Thomas Buckle, once famous as a scientific historian. He called on the Carlyles at their house in Chelsea, and began an intimacy only broken by death. Carlyle himself was an excellent adviser in Froude's peculiar field. He had the same Puritan leanings, ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul
... going to have one, so don't bother to buckle on your armor." She relented as she looked into his miserable eyes, and took his hand impulsively. "I'm sorry...sorry....I wish...you are worth it...but it's ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... gone. The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it ...
— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster


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