Definition of Bucklings

1. Noun. (plural of buckling) ¹

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Definition of Bucklings

1. buckling [n] - See also: buckling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bucklings

buckle up
buckled
buckled aorta
buckleless
buckler
buckler fern
buckler mustard
buckler plate
buckler plates
bucklered
bucklering
bucklers
buckles
buckleya
buckling
bucklings (current term)
buckminsterfullerene
buckminsterfullerenes
bucko
buckoes
buckos
buckra
buckrake
buckrakes
buckram
buckramed
buckraming
buckrammed
buckrams
buckras

Literary usage of Bucklings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lyon in Mourning: Or, A Collection of Speeches, Letters, Journals, Etc by Robert Forbes (1895)
"All the female rags and bucklings,' said Kingsburgh and his lady, ' that were left in the heart of the bush, were taken up and carried to our house in order ..."

2. Building Materials, Their Nature, Properties and Manufacture: A Text-book by George Alexander Thomas Middleton (1905)
"Subsequent shrinkages of the earth caused subsequent bucklings, different from the first, depressing the former hills and raising the former sea levels, ..."

3. Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1878)
"... making the whole chain about four inches in diameter, welded together for their whole length, secured by bucklings, and braced round with iron wire; ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Pathology. These fractures differ from ordinary fractures in other respects than in the trivial cause. They are more apt to be bendings, bowings, bucklings, ..."

5. Masterpieces of Greek Literature: Homer: Tyrtaeus: Archilochus: Callistratus by Clara Hitchcock Seymour (1902)
"... Makes himself supper ; goes through some brief stay, Then says he's traversing the forest-flats Of Isthmos;3 thereupon lays body bare Of bucklings, ..."

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