Adjacent Words
To bring to termsTo bring to the gangway
To bring to the hammer
To bring under
To bring up
To bring up any one with a round turn
To bring up by hand
To bring up the rear
To bring up with a round turn
To bristle up
To broach to
To brush aside
To brush away
To brush up
To brustle up
To build a chapel
To bundle off
To bundle one's self up
To bung up
To burn
To burn a bowl
To burn daylight
To burn down
To burn one's fingers
To burn out
To burn the midnight oil
To burn together
To burn up
To bury the hatchet
To buy again
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Buckle Buc"kle (b[u^]k"k'l), v. i. 1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. --Pepys. 2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. 3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.] The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle. --Pepys. 4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. --Latimer. In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. --Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. --Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. --J. D. Forbes.
