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• Buckle

  ·noun To join in marriage. II. Buckle ·noun A contorted expression, as of the face. III. Buckle ·v...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Turn-buckle

  ·noun A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp. II. Turn-buck...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Buckle Court

  Out of Houndsditch. In Bishopsgate Street Without (Strype, ed 1720, I. ii. 109). No further referen...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• to buckle-to

  To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• horse-buckle

  The great whelk. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Buckle, Henry Thomas

  (1821-1862) Historical writer, s. of a wealthy shipowner in London, was b. at Lee in Kent. Though n...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• buckle-a-doing-it

  set about it. York. The common expression is BUCKLE-TO. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose