Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, round shield either carried or worn on the arm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be a buckler or shield to; support; defend.
- noun A shield; specifically, a small shield intended to parry blows or thrusts, but not so large as to cover the body.
- noun Nautical, a piece of wood fitted to stop the hawse-holes of a ship, to prevent the sea from coming in, or to stop the circular hole in a port-lid when the gun is run in. Hawse-bucklers are now made of iron.
- noun The anterior segment of the carapace or shell of a trilobite.
- noun A plate on the body or head of a fish; especially, a plate in front of the dorsal fin in various catfishes, or Nematognathi.
- noun A stage of the molting American blue crab, Callinectes hastatus, when the shell has become nearly hard.
- noun A piece of beef cut off from the sirloin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- noun The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
- noun (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.
- noun (Naut.) a solid buckler.
- noun (Bot.) a genus of plants (
Biscutella ) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. - noun a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See
Christ's thorn . - noun (Naut.) a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.
- transitive verb obsolete To shield; to defend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
shield , of variousshapes andsizes , worn on one of thearms (usually the left) forprotecting the front of thebody . In thesword and buckler play of theMiddle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but tostop orparry blows . - noun obsolete A shield resembling the
Roman scutum . In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term. - noun zoology One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- noun zoology The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
- noun nautical 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.
- verb obsolete To
shield ; todefend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle.
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Posidonius writes, that Fabius was called the buckler,
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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What tends strongly to confirm this view, that the buckler was the model for the coin, is the fact that for a long time Macedonian coins were finished upon the obverse, in imitation of the national shield.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 Various
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His buckler was the right of free speech; his sword, the argument that he stood for peace through all the world, for arbitration and disarmament among all the peoples of the world.
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The buckler is a thing wherewith a man most chiefly defendeth himself: and that must be perfect faith in Jesus Christ, in our Captain, and in his word.
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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A lance or spear; improperly rendered "buckler" in the
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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In Ps. 91: 4 "buckler" is properly a roundel appropriated to archers or slingers.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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And frequently in the later books, as in (1 Chronicles 12: 8) ( "buckler"); (2 Chronicles 11: 12) (It varied much in length, weight and size.) d.
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He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you will shelter; His faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
chained_bear commented on the word buckler
"a piece of defensive armour, used by the ancients." (citation in Historical Military Terms list description)
October 10, 2008