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buckle
(encz) | buckle,připnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
buckle
(encz) | buckle,spona n: Zdeněk Brož |
Buckle
(gcide) | Buckle \Buc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buckled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n.]
1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to
buckle a harness.
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2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
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3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and
earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but
by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the
programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish
the project in time for the promised delivery date.
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Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
--Fuller.
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4. To join in marriage. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Buckle
(gcide) | Buckle \Buc"kle\, n. [OE. bocle buckle, boss of a shield, OF.
bocle, F. boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a
little cheek or mouth, dim. of bucca cheek; this boss or knob
resembling a cheek.]
1. 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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2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a
plate of sheet metal. --Knight.
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3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn;
also, the state of being curled.
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Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern
face. --W. Irving.
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Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year.
--Addison.
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4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.]
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'Gainst nature armed by gravity,
His features too in buckle see. --Churchill.
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Buckle
(gcide) | Buckle \Buc"kle\ (b[u^]k"k'l), v. i.
1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl;
to kink.
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Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
--Pepys.
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2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
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3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.]
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The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.
--Pepys.
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4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close
fight; to struggle; to contend.
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The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the
Lord Protector as he was with him. --Latimer.
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In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. --Shak.
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To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal.
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To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. --Barrow.
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Before buckling to my winter's work. --J. D.
Forbes.
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buckle
(wn) | buckle
n 1: fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap;
often has loose prong
2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: warp,
buckle]
v 1: fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle, clasp]
[ant: unbuckle]
2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle,
crumple]
3: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The
highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave,
buckle, warp] |
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buckle
(encz) | buckle,připnout v: Zdeněk Brožbuckle,spona n: Zdeněk Brož |
buckle down
(encz) | buckle down,pracovat usilovněji Zdeněk Brožbuckle down,začít makat [frsl.] Pino |
buckle down to something
(encz) | buckle down to something,pustit se do něčeho pořádně [fráz.] např. "If
you don't buckle down to your job, you'll be fired." Pino |
buckle under
(encz) | buckle under,vzdát se v: Zdeněk Brož |
buckle up
(encz) | buckle up,připoutat se v: Zdeněk Brož |
buckled
(encz) | buckled,páskový adj: Zdeněk Brožbuckled,připnul v: Zdeněk Brožbuckled,připnutý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
buckler
(encz) | buckler,štít v: Zdeněk Brož |
buckler fern
(encz) | buckler fern,kapraď Zdeněk Brož |
buckley
(encz) | Buckley,Buckley n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
swashbuckler
(encz) | swashbuckler,chvastoun n: Zdeněk Brožswashbuckler,vejtaha Zdeněk Brož |
turnbuckle
(encz) | turnbuckle,napínák n: Zdeněk Brož |
unbuckle
(encz) | unbuckle,odepnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
unbuckled
(encz) | unbuckled,odepnutý Jaroslav Šedivý |
buckley
(czen) | Buckley,Buckleyn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
Blind buckler
(gcide) | Buckler \Buc"kler\, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a
shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See
Buckle, n.]
1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one
of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of
the body.
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Note: 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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2. (Zool.)
(a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many
ganoid fishes.
(b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
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3. (Naut.) 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.
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Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler.
Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella)
with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on
bursting resembles two bucklers or shields.
Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a
buckler. See Christ's thorn.
Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the
passage of a cable.
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Buckled
(gcide) | Buckle \Buc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buckled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n.]
1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to
buckle a harness.
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2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
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3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and
earnestness; -- formerly, generally used reflexively, but
by mid 20th century, usually used with down; -- as, the
programmers buckled down and worked late hours to finish
the project in time for the promised delivery date.
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Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.
--Fuller.
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4. To join in marriage. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Buckler
(gcide) | Buckler \Buc"kler\, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a
shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See
Buckle, n.]
1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one
of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of
the body.
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Note: 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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2. (Zool.)
(a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many
ganoid fishes.
(b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
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3. (Naut.) 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.
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Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler.
Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella)
with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on
bursting resembles two bucklers or shields.
Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a
buckler. See Christ's thorn.
Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the
passage of a cable.
[1913 Webster]Buckler \Buc"kler\, v. t.
To shield; to defend. [Obs.]
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Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree? --Shak.
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Buckler mustard
(gcide) | Buckler \Buc"kler\, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a
shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See
Buckle, n.]
1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one
of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of
the body.
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Note: 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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2. (Zool.)
(a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many
ganoid fishes.
(b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
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3. (Naut.) 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.
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Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler.
Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella)
with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on
bursting resembles two bucklers or shields.
Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a
buckler. See Christ's thorn.
Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the
passage of a cable.
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Buckler thorn
(gcide) | Buckler \Buc"kler\, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a
shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See
Buckle, n.]
1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one
of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of
the body.
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Note: 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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2. (Zool.)
(a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many
ganoid fishes.
(b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
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3. (Naut.) 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.
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Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler.
Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella)
with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on
bursting resembles two bucklers or shields.
Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a
buckler. See Christ's thorn.
Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the
passage of a cable.
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Buckler-headed
(gcide) | Buckler-headed \Buc"kler-head`ed\, a.
Having a head like a buckler.
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Parbuckle
(gcide) | Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parbuckled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Parbuckling.]
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, n.
(a) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical
burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast
aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which
rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are
hauled up or payed out.
(b) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a
cask, gun, etc.
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Parbuckled
(gcide) | Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parbuckled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Parbuckling.]
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. --Totten.
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Riding buckler
(gcide) | Buckler \Buc"kler\, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a
shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See
Buckle, n.]
1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one
of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of
the body.
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Note: 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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2. (Zool.)
(a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many
ganoid fishes.
(b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
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3. (Naut.) 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.
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Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler.
Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella)
with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on
bursting resembles two bucklers or shields.
Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a
buckler. See Christ's thorn.
Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the
passage of a cable.
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Rushbuckler
(gcide) | Rushbuckler \Rush"buc`kler\, n.
A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
[Obs.]
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That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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Swashbuckler
(gcide) | Swashbuckler \Swash"buc`kler\, n.
A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a
swaggerer. --Milton.
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Swingebuckler
(gcide) | Swingebuckler \Swinge"buc`kler\, n.
A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer. [Obs.] --Shak.
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To buckle to
(gcide) | Buckle \Buc"kle\ (b[u^]k"k'l), v. i.
1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl;
to kink.
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Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
--Pepys.
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2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
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3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.]
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The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.
--Pepys.
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4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close
fight; to struggle; to contend.
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The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the
Lord Protector as he was with him. --Latimer.
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In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. --Shak.
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To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal.
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To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. --Barrow.
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Before buckling to my winter's work. --J. D.
Forbes.
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Turn buckle
(gcide) | Turn \Turn\ (t[^u]rn), n.
1. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if
about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a
wheel.
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2. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order,
position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude;
as, the turn of the tide.
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At length his complaint took a favorable turn.
--Macaulay.
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The turns and varieties of all passions. --Hooker.
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Too well the turns of mortal chance I know. --Pope.
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3. One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series
of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a
winding; a bend; a meander.
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And all its [the river's] thousand turns disclose.
Some fresher beauty varying round. --Byron.
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4. A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it
began; a short walk; a stroll.
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Come, you and I must walk a turn together. --Shak.
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I will take a turn in your garden. --Dryden.
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5. Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with
another or with others, or in due order; due chance;
alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
"Nobleness and bounty . . . had their turns in his [the
king's] nature."
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His turn will come to laugh at you again. --Denham.
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Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he
pleases. --Collier.
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6. Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of
kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
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Had I not done a friendes turn to thee? --Chaucer.
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thanks are half lost when good turns are delayed.
--Fairfax.
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7. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will
not serve his turn.
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I have enough to serve mine own turn. --Shak.
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8. Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal
or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of
signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly
turn in conversation.
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The turn of both his expressions and thoughts is
unharmonious. --Dryden.
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The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful
man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.
--Addison.
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9. A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring
symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell;
as, a bad turn. [Colloq.]
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10. A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so
called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand
on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off,
when the signal was given. [Obs.]
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11. A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about
a pin or a cleat.
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12. (Mining) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
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13. (Eng. Law) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a
year in every hundred within his county. --Blount.
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14. pl. (Med.) Monthly courses; menses. [Colloq.]
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15. (Mus.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, ?),
commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on
which the turn is made, with the note above, and the
semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the
principal note next, and the semitone below last, the
three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the
marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with
the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed
on end thus ?, or drawn thus ?.
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By turns.
(a) One after another; alternately; in succession.
(b) At intervals. "[They] feel by turns the bitter
change." --Milton.
In turn, in due order of succession.
To a turn, exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; -- a
phrase alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving
spit.
To take turns, to alternate; to succeed one another in due
order.
Turn and turn about, by equal alternating periods of
service or duty; by turns.
Turn bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by
clock makers and watchmakers.
Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary.
Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the
wind so as to present its opening to the leeward. --G.
Francis.
Turn of life (Med.), change of life. See under Change.
Turn screw, a screw driver.
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Turn-buckle
(gcide) | Turn-buckle \Turn"-buc`kle\ (t[^u]rn"b[u^]k`k'l), n. (Mech.)
(a) A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a
swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay,
etc.
(b) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end
of a chain, or a hasp.
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Unbuckle
(gcide) | Unbuckle \Un*buc"kle\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + buckle.]
To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe.
"Unbuckle anon thy purse." --Chaucer.
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belt buckle
(wn) | belt buckle
n 1: the buckle used to fasten a belt |
broad buckler-fern
(wn) | broad buckler-fern
n 1: European shield fern [syn: broad buckler-fern,
Dryopteris dilatata] |
buckle
(wn) | buckle
n 1: fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap;
often has loose prong
2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: warp,
buckle]
v 1: fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle, clasp]
[ant: unbuckle]
2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle,
crumple]
3: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The
highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave,
buckle, warp] |
buckle down
(wn) | buckle down
v 1: work very hard, like a slave [syn: slave, {break one's
back}, buckle down, knuckle down] |
buckle under
(wn) | buckle under
v 1: consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb,
knuckle under, buckle under] |
buckler
(wn) | buckler
n 1: armor carried on the arm to intercept blows [syn: shield,
buckler] |
buckler fern
(wn) | buckler fern
n 1: any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or
Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped
coverings on the sori [syn: shield fern, buckler fern] |
buckler mustard
(wn) | buckler mustard
n 1: plant of southeastern Europe having yellow flowers like
those of mustard and pods with open valves resembling
bucklers [syn: buckler mustard, Biscutalla laevigata] |
buckleya
(wn) | buckleya
n 1: parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having
opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed
by oily dull green olivelike fruits [syn: buckleya,
Buckleya distichophylla] |
buckleya distichophylla
(wn) | Buckleya distichophylla
n 1: parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having
opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed
by oily dull green olivelike fruits [syn: buckleya,
Buckleya distichophylla] |
genus buckleya
(wn) | genus Buckleya
n 1: small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs |
schlumbergera buckleyi
(wn) | Schlumbergera buckleyi
n 1: epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as
a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-
purple flowers that bloom in winter [syn: {Christmas
cactus}, Schlumbergera buckleyi, {Schlumbergera
baridgesii}] |
swashbuckler
(wn) | swashbuckler
n 1: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn:
daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler,
lunatic, harum-scarum] |
turnbuckle
(wn) | turnbuckle
n 1: an oblong metal coupling with a swivel at one end and an
internal thread at the other into which a threaded rod can
be screwed in order to form a unit that can be adjusted for
length or tension |
unbuckle
(wn) | unbuckle
v 1: undo the buckle of; "Unbuckle your seat belt" [ant:
buckle, clasp] |
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