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Definition of Bucklings
1. buckling [n] - See also: buckling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bucklings
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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