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▪ I. † ˈbuckling, n.1 nonce-wd.
[f. buck n.1 + -ling.]
A young buck; a little fop.
1778Garrick Epil. to Fathers, Ye bucks & bucklings of the age.
▪ II. buckling, n.2|ˈbʌklɪŋ|
Also bückling (pl. bücklinge).
[ad. G. bückling bloater.]
A smoked herring; a bloater (see quots.)
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Buckling, a large smoked and salted herring. 1924G. B. Stern Tents of Israel iv. 54 Bücklinge.., which were herrings smoked by herself according to old Maria's Viennese recipe. 1934‘Taffrail’ Seventy North iii. 66 The ‘buckling’..was a herring smoked in a special oven and cooked at the same time. 1967M. Gilbert Dust & Heat 1. 182 This isn't a smoked trout at all. It's a buckling.
▪ III. buckling, vbl. n.|ˈbʌklɪŋ|
[f. buckle v.]
1. The action of fastening with a buckle; also fig.
1625Laud Serm. (1837) 69 A double buckling and knitting of the State together. 1808Scott Marm. vi. xii, At buckling of the falchion belt.
b. concr. A brace, a fastening; that which is buckled on.
1861Smiles Engineers II. 449 The main chains were to be..secured by bucklings. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 281 Thereupon lays body bare Of bucklings.
†2. The action of closing with an enemy; engagement, onset. Obs.
1563Foxe A. & M. 1041/2 His valiaunt buckling with two enemies. 1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 98 In the buckling he might have receiued a small losse.
3. A bending, giving way; also, techn. the curving or crumpling of a plain surface under longitudinal pressure.
1651tr. Bacon's Life & Death 56 For the buckling of their knees. 1850E. Clark Britannia & C. Bridges I. 104 No one knew, a priori, the resistance of plates to buckling. 1877Lumberman's Gaz. 8 Dec. 362 The old ‘sash-saw’ was..kept strained within a frame or ‘sash’ to prevent its buckling or bending. 1882Nature XXVI. 599 The curvature technically called buckling.
†4. The crisping and curling, or retaining in curl (of hair). Also attrib. Obs.
1713Steele Guardian No. 38 §2 It is the last time my black coat will bear scouring, or my long wig buckling. 1740Cheyne Regimen Introd. 9 The buckling upon Pipes and boiling soft broken Hair. 1846J. Train Buchanites in Fairholt s.v. Buckling, Their locks..restrained from falling..over the back and bosom by small buckling-combs.
▪ IV. buckling, ppl. a.|ˈbʌklɪŋ|
[f. buckle v. + -ing2.]
Crisply curling, waving.
18..Crawfurd Classif. Races (L.) With the European races, the hair of the head is usually, soft, silky, or buckling. |