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Buckle: Definition and part of speech

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Buckle

  1. n. A contorted expression, as of the face.
  2. 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.
  3. n. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
  4. n. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
  5. n. To join in marriage.
  6. v. i. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
  7. v. i. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
  8. v. i. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Buck: Definition and part of speech

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Buck

  1. n. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  2. n. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  3. v. t. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  4. v. t. To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  5. n. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
  6. n. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
  7. n. A male Indian or negro.
  8. v. i. To copulate, as bucks and does.
  9. v. i. To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; — said of a vicious horse or mule.
  10. v. t. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  11. 1n. 1 The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  12. 1n. 1 Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bucking: Definition and part of speech

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Bucking

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Buck
  2. n. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
  3. n. A washing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Buckler: Definition and part of speech

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Buckler

  1. v. t. To shield; to defend.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
  4. n. The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
  5. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.