If the panel is badly fitted or stuck, it may buckle or split, or the frame be split or forced apart at the joints.
A richly wrought leathern girdle, studded with precious stones, and held in place by a huge carved buckle of gold, clasped the garment about her waist so that the upper portion fell outward over the girdle after the manner of a blouse.
However, I took the precaution to buckle on the sword my father had given me.
Instead, she stooped, pretending that her shoe-buckle was unfastened; when she rose there were tears in her eyes.
He had the tongue of a buckle secured here, and a horse's hoof lifted there--and his Grace was right, there was a stone in it.
Was it really worth while, he wondered, "to buckle down" and learn to read?
Wait until I buckle on my sword and order our horses.
At length I fell asleep, and as it seemed but a few minutes later, though really six hours had gone by, was awakened by Kari, who told me that the dawn was not far off and came to help me to buckle on my armour.
Therefore one word more while I buckle the sword Wave-Flame on to you, as doubtless his women folk did on to Thorgrimmer, your ancestor.
Buckle had taken account of natural influences, but had relegated them to a secondary plane, compared with psychological factors.
Thinkers like Buckle sought to minimise their importance or explain them away.
So rapid was the fall of Spain," says Buckle in his "History of the Civilization of England," Vol.
But since Buckle penned these forcible lines, she has made a change.
Buckle quotes from Spanish sources, an epistle which will illustrate the abysses of ignorance into which the Spanish intellect had sunk.
When the horse has hopped for as long as you think necessary to tire him, buckle a common single strap roller or surcingle on his body tolerably tight.
It is better the buckle should be inside the leg if you mean the horse to fall toward you, because then it is easier to unbuckle when he is on the ground.
There is as much need to fit a bridle to the length of a horse's head, as to buckle the girths of the saddle.
Take care that your buckle is of the very best quality, and the leather sound.
He overheard: "Who is the remarkable new person with the orange tie and the rococo buckle on his jacket belt--the one that just went through?
Joyfully I buckle on my knapsack, and under guard of one of the servants of the lyceum I make my entrance at the hospital.
After the doctor's visit, I buckle on my knapsack, and under guard of a corporal, here I am going limping along, dragging my legs and sweating under my harness.
We are beginning to perish of ennui in this hospital, when, one day, at five o'clock, the doctor bursts into the room and orders us to put on our campaign clothes and to buckle on our knapsacks.
Another piece of practical wisdom that I would suggest is that if every day has its own work, we should buckle ourselves to do the day's work before night falls and not leave any over for to-morrow, which will be quite full enough.
And how a gang of idle labourers will buckle to the spade and tax their muscles in an altogether different fashion when the overseer appears upon the field!
They are much the most easy to attach or remove, and there is no chance of a strap being cut in walking or otherwise, or of an over-tight buckle hurting the foot.
Her hat was a silk one, set right on the back of her head, with a velvet rosettte and steel buckle in front, and a long veil of grey gauze streaming out behind.
Captain Whyte-Melville speaks from observation of the risk of the buckle catching in the angle of the stirrup-iron, and says he has never seen a spurless boot so entangled.
Since I became convinced that the strap and buckle were a quite possible, though perhaps unlikely, source of danger, I have altogether discarded them, and have felt my feet more free in the stirrups in consequence.
We've no call to do anything but rest ourselves for a week or two, anyhow; then we must settle on something and buckle to it more business-like.
But a few miles didn't matter much on such a road, and with horses in such buckle as ours.
Our horses were in great buckle now; they hadn't been doing much lately.
We were all in great buckleand very fit, certainly.
There was a silver buckle at her belt, and on each shoulder a knot of blue ribbon.
A bit of silver was to be scraped from the youth's buckle that the gleam of the costly silver might lead him to that which was buried.
Don't buckle the third, or it might be bad for me.
The head-stall should have a buckle on each cheek-strap; the throat-lash should be sewed to the top, and should have a buckle on each side.
Rather than submit to continued and intensified humiliations," cried the orator, a magnetic man of the sort who was carrying Northern audiences to opposite extremes, "we will buckle on our swords and go to war again!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buckle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
