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Bible Dictionaries
Buckle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
(2):
(n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.
(3):
(v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
(4):
(n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; - generally used reflexively.
(5):
(v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
(6):
(n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
(7):
(n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
(8):
(n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
(9):
(n.) To join in marriage.
(10):
(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.
(11):
(v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
(12):
(v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Buckle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/buckle.html. 1828.
