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  • verb Present participle of buckler.

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Examples

  • The Pope and Princes of Europe shall judge our quarrel, and whether a Christian prince has done well in bucklering the cause which thou hast to-day adopted.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Princes of Europe shall judge our quarrel, and whether a Christian prince has done well in bucklering the cause which thou hast to-day adopted.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • Judith, a buccaneer by nature and by practice, was habitually engaged in swash-bucklering it on a round of visits.

    Mount Music Martin Ross 1888

  • The Pope and Princes of Europe shall judge our quarrel, and whether a Christian prince has done well in bucklering the cause which thou hast to-day adopted.

    Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

  • The Pope and Princes of Europe shall judge our quarrel, and whether a Christian prince has done well in bucklering the cause which thou hast to-day adopted.

    Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

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