Buckle
Meaning of Buckle
noun
- a flat, typically rectangular frame with a hinged pin, used for joining the ends of a belt or strap.
most rucksacks have quick release buckles
a belt buckle
- a cake made with fruit (typically blueberries) and having a streusel topping.
finish off the meal with a blueberry buckle for dessert
- fasten with a buckle.
he buckled his belt
- bend and give way under a weight or force.
the bridge started shaking and then it began to buckle
a weaker person might have buckled under the strain
Middle English: from Old French bocle, from Latin buccula ‘cheek strap of a helmet’, from bucca ‘cheek’. buckle (sense 2 of the verb) is from French boucler ‘to bulge’.
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Hyphenation of Buckle
Buckle
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- Buckle is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Buckle synonyms
Meaning warp:
Meaning clasp:
Meaning crumple:
Meaning heave:
Meaning a flexible or spring-loaded device for holding an object or objects together or in place:
Meaning an act of catching something, typically a ball:
Meaning a device that closes or secures something:
Meaning a slotted hinged metal plate forming part of a fastening for a door or lid, fitted over a loop and secured by a pin or padlock:
Meaning close or do up securely:
Meaning attach or fasten with a hook or hooks:
Meaning fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap:
Meaning attach or fasten with string or similar cord:
Meaning fix or attach (something) firmly so that it cannot be moved or lost:
Meaning shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle:
Meaning form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape:
Meaning form or cause to form a curve:
Meaning pull or twist out of shape:
Meaning twist or bend out of the normal shape:
Meaning distort the shape or form of; make misshapen:
Meaning shape or form badly or wrongly:
Meaning destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing:
Meaning swell or protrude to an incongruous extent:
Meaning move with a curving trajectory:
Meaning have the curved shape of an arch:
Meaning make or cause lines or folds in (something, especially fabric or the skin):
Meaning (of a structure) suddenly fall down or give way:
Buckle antonyms
Meaning open the fastening of; undo (something):
Meaning make or become straight:
Anagrams of Buckle
Words that rhyme with Buckle
Gackle, Spackle, beshackle, cackle, chackle, crackle, crosshackle, entackle, foretackle, grackle, hackle, hamshackle, mackle, quackle, rackle, ramshackle, ransackle, ranshackle, retackle, shackle, snackle, spackle, sprackle, tackle, unshackle, untackle, befreckle, bespeckle, checkle, deckle, freckle, heckle, keckle, kenspeckle, outspeckle, peckle, seckle, speckle, spreckle, aprickle, atrickle, banstickle, brickle, caickle, crickle, depickle, dunpickle, fairnitickle, fairnytickle, fernitickle
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