buckler
One who buckles somethingOne who buckles something.
» They obey, / and swords and bucklers hide amid the grass away.
Meaning
6 sensesOne who buckles something.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
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баклерbakler
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete)A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
Examples
3 sentencesThey obey, / and swords and bucklers hide amid the grass away.
With this parchment that should be his buckler against any future need, Sir Oliver rode home, uplifted.
"Take we the Danaans' bucklers; with a foe / who asks, if craft or courage guide the blow? / Themselves shall arm us."
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, buFrom Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.
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Forms
plural: bucklersSynonyms
1 synonyms- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows:shield