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