Buckle ¹

Definition: 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.

Buckle ²

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

Buckle ³

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

Buckle ⁴

Definition: A contorted expression, as of the face.

Buckle ⁵

Definition: To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.

Buckle ⁶

Definition: To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.

Buckle ⁷

Definition: To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; generally used reflexively.

Buckle ⁸

Definition: To join in marriage.

Buckle ⁹

Definition: To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

Buckle ¹⁰

Definition: To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.

Buckle ¹¹

Definition: To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

Buckle ¹²

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

buckle ¹³

Definition: fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong

buckle ¹⁴

Definition: a shape distorted by twisting or folding

buckle ¹⁵

Definition: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heatwave"

buckle ¹⁶

Definition: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled"

buckle ¹⁷

Definition: fasten with a buckle or buckles