Buc·kle 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.
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