Buckle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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: […]”

2. isim Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.

   “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.”

3. isim An image of a clasp (etymology 1, noun sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
4. isim A great conflict or struggle.
5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil 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.”

7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.

   “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.”

9. fiil 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?”

10. fiil To 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.”

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

    “[R]eaſon doth buckle and bovve the Mind vnto the Nature of things.”

12. fiil To curl (hair).
13. fiil 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: […]”

14. fiil 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.”

15. isim A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.

    “We can’t use that saw any more. It’s got a buckle in its blade.”

16. isim An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
17. isim Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
18. isim A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also (countable, uncountable), the state of hair being curled in this manner.

    “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.”

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