Definition of buckle

• n. - 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.
• n. - A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
• n. - A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
• n. - A contorted expression, as of the face.
• n. - To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
• n. - To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
• n. - To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
• n. - To join in marriage.
• v. i. - To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
• v. i. - To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
• v. i. - To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
• v. i. - To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
• n. - A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
• n. - A contorted expression, as of the face.
• n. - To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
• n. - To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
• n. - To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
• n. - To join in marriage.
• v. i. - To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
• v. i. - To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
• v. i. - To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
• v. i. - To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.