Definition: A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one
more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as
parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the
frame and pierced by the tongue.
Definition: A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a
plate of sheet metal.
Definition: A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn;
also, the state of being curled.
Definition: A contorted expression, as of the face.
Definition: To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to
buckle a harness.
Definition: To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
Definition: To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness;
-- generally used reflexively.
Definition: To join in marriage.
Definition: To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to
curl; to kink.
Definition: To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
Definition: To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
Definition: To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close
fight; to struggle; to contend.
