noun. A clasp for fastening two ends, as of straps or a belt, in which a device attached to one of the ends is fitted or coupled to the other.

noun. An ornament that resembles this clasp, such as a metal square on a shoe or hat.

noun. An instance of bending, warping, or crumpling; a bend or bulge.

intransitive verb. To fasten with a buckle.

intransitive verb. To cause to bend, warp, or crumple.

intransitive verb. To become fastened with a buckle.

intransitive verb. To bend, warp, or crumple, as under pressure or heat.

intransitive verb. To give way; collapse.

intransitive verb. To succumb, as to exhaustion or authority; give in.

phrasal verb. To apply oneself with determination.

phrasal verb. To use a safety belt, especially in an automobile.

noun. A bend, bulge, or kink, as in a saw-blade.

noun. A contorted expression of the face.

noun. Any curl of hair, especially a long curl carefully arranged, and turned toward the head, worn by women in the eighteenth century.

noun. The condition of being curled, as of hair.

To bend; bow.

To curl; become wrinkled; shrivel up.

To yield assent; agree: with to: as, I can't buckle to that.

To bend to something; apply one's self with vigor; engage in with zeal: with to: as, “go, buckle to the law,”

To enter upon some labor or contest; struggle; contend: with with.

To bend; curl; shrivel as by the application of heat.

To do up (the hair) in curlpapers; curl; crimp. See buckle, n., 3.

To fasten with a buckle or buckles.

To prepare for action of any kind (a metaphor taken from buckling on armor previous to engaging in battle); hence, to set vigorously to work at anything: with a reflexive pronoun.

To join in battle.

To confine or limit.

To join together; unite in marriage.

To marry.

noun. A clasp consisting of a rectangular or curved rim, with one or more movable tongues secured to the chape at one side or in the middle, and long enough to rest upon the opposite side: used for fastening together two straps or belts or the ends of the same strap, or for some similar purpose.

noun. In heraldry, same as arming-buckle.

noun. An iron loop for fastening the blade to the frame of a wood-saw.

noun. 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.

noun. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

noun. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

noun. A contorted expression, as of the face.

intransitive verb. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

intransitive verb. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.

intransitive verb. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

intransitive verb. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

intransitive verb. to bend to; to engage with zeal.

transitive verb. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles.

transitive verb. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.

transitive verb. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- .

transitive verb. To join in marriage.

verb. To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.

verb. To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).

verb. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

verb. To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.

verb. To buckle down; to apply oneself.

noun. A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.

"This buckle is absolutely beautiful -- so many delicious blueberries!"

bend  buckle down  buckle up  to buckle in  to turn the buckle of the belt behind  

break  cave in  collapse  distorted shape  distortion  

chuckle  huckle  knuckle  muckle  ruckle  

bead  belt  bracelet  clasp  cuff  

anamorphism  anamorphosis  articulate  asymmetry  batten  

buckled  buckles  buckling