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Meaning of BUCKLE in English

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.

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    Meaning of BUCKLE in English

    • 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.
    • A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
    • A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
    • A contorted expression, as of the face.
    • To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
    • To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
    • To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
    • To join in marriage.
    • To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
    • To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
    • To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
    • To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

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