Usually means: Fasten or secure with strap.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. buckle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buckle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buckle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buckle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buckle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buckle, buckle: Wordnik
  7. buckle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Buckle, buckle: Wiktionary
  9. buckle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buckle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buckle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buckle, buckle: Dictionary.com
  13. buckle (n.), buckle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buckle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buckle (casting), Buckle (clothing retailer), Buckle (disambiguation), Buckle (store), Buckle (surname), Buckle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buckle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buckle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buckle: Rhymezone
  19. buckle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buckle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Buckle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. buckle: Free Dictionary
  23. buckle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Buckle: The Word Detective
  25. buckle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. buckle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. buckle: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  3. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buckle, buckle, buckle, buckle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. buckle, the buckle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See buckled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
noun:  (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.
noun:  (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
noun:  A great conflict or struggle.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  (reflexive) To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.
verb:  (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative)
verb:  To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.
verb:  (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.
verb:  (obsolete except British, dialectal) To participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.
verb:  (obsolete) To curl (hair).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.
verb:  (figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.
noun:  (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
noun:  (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
noun:  (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also (countable, uncountable), the state of hair being curled in this manner.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buckles.

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