Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)To shield; to defend.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. They obey, / and swords and bucklers hide amid the grass away.

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  2. With this parchment that should be his buckler against any future need, Sir Oliver rode home, uplifted.

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  3. "Take we the Danaans' bucklers; with a foe / who asks, if craft or courage guide the blow? / Themselves shall arm us."

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Origin

From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bu

From 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

bucklers, bucklering, bucklered, bucklered
Base formbuckler · to buckler
3rd person singularbucklers
Present participlebucklering
Past simplebucklered
Past participlebucklered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybuckler
he, she, itbucklers

Past simpleLesson

all personsbucklered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bucklered
he, she, ithas bucklered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill buckler

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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