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 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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