noun. A small, round shield either carried or worn on the arm.

To be a buckler or shield to; support; defend.

noun. A shield; specifically, a small shield intended to parry blows or thrusts, but not so large as to cover the body.

noun. Nautical, a piece of wood fitted to stop the hawse-holes of a ship, to prevent the sea from coming in, or to stop the circular hole in a port-lid when the gun is run in. Hawse-bucklers are now made of iron.

noun. The anterior segment of the carapace or shell of a trilobite.

noun. A plate on the body or head of a fish; especially, a plate in front of the dorsal fin in various catfishes, or Nematognathi.

noun. A stage of the molting American blue crab, Callinectes hastatus, when the shell has become nearly hard.

noun. A piece of beef cut off from the sirloin.

transitive verb. To shield; to defend.

noun. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

noun. undefined

noun. One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

noun. The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

noun. A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.

noun. a solid buckler.

noun. a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields.

noun. a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn.

noun. a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

noun. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.

noun. A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

noun. One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

noun. The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

noun. A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.

verb. To shield; to defend.

noun. armor carried on the arm to intercept blows

"His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle."

blind buckler  protector  

Armour  armor  

escutcheon  pavis  pavise  scutcheon  

Armour  arquebuse  battle-axe  breastplate  broadsword  

defend  shield  

bucklered  bucklering  bucklers