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noun

Buckler n.

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. 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.

(Zool.)

(a)

One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

(b)

The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

(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.

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.

verb

Buckler v. t. To shield; to defend. (Obs.) "Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?"

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"Buckler" Quotes from Famous Books

... now firmly the words of my tongue; For the chief finds a rapture in glory: On the gate of Byzantium thy buckler is hung, Thy name shall be deathless in story; Wild waves and broad kingdoms thy sceptre obey, And the foe sees with envy ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various

... much more important, always, than what your partner was. James's height and eyeglass seemed to give him an impartial air at these dreadful ceremonies. Behind his glass disk he could afford to be impertinent. And he was certainly rude enough to be an Under-Secretary. Without that shining buckler of the soul he would have been simply nobody; with it, he was a demi-god. Here then, under the very shadow of his immortality, Lucy pursued her researches. What of the romantic, hidden, eponymous James? Where did he stand now in ...

— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... stay!" he exclaimed with unctuous fervor. "Pause, unfortunate girl, ere you reject the strong shield and buckler that the Lord has, in His great mercy, offered you, in my person! For I must warn you,—Froeken Thelma, I must warn you seriously of the danger you run! I will not pain you by referring to the grave charges brought ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

... was a set battle in the morning between fifteen men on each side, armed with the usual buckler or small shield, and stout single-sticks instead of swords. This combat excited more interest than all the duels that had preceded it; the crowd almost broke down the barriers, and the cheering and cries of encouragement could ...

— After London - Wild England • Richard Jefferies

... time, he summoned all his skill for a second encounter; while Adrian, aware of the great superiority of his charger, resolved to bring it to bear against his opponent. Accordingly, when the Knights again rushed forward, Adrian, covering himself well with his buckler, directed his care less against the combatant, whom he felt no lance wielded by mortal hand was likely to dislodge, than against the less noble animal he bestrode. The shock of Montreal's charge was like an avalanche—his lance shivered ...

— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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