buckled, ppl. a.
(ˈbʌk(ə)ld)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. a. Fastened with a buckle. b. Provided with buckles. c. Joined closely, united.
| 1394 P. Pl. Crede 299 Nou han þei bucled schon. c 1420 Anturs of Arth. xxix. 4 Her belte was..Beten with besandus, and bocult ful bene. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 896 in Babees Bk. (1868) 178 His schon laced or bokelid, draw them on sure. 1876 M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. I. 5 He wore..stout buckled shoes. |
2. Doubled or bent up, wrinkled, crumpled, knitted; bent in a double curve. buckled plates (Mech.), see quot. 1852.
| 1564 Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) iii. 2 The buckled browes of majestie shall be bent against them. 1666 Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 77 And took up a piece of glasse melted and buckled like parchment. 1852 Specif. R. Mallet's Patent No. 557 Plates of iron..bent into a peculiar convex and concave form, which I denominate ‘buckled plates’. |
† 3. Crisped and curled. See buckle n. 3. Obs.
| 1753 Richardson Grandison (ed. 7) I. 98 Sir Rowland..in his full buckled wig. 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 130, I have had my hair..singed, and bolstered, and buckled, in the newest fashion. 1861 Wynter Soc. Bees 524 This buckled hair is..the same as that denounced by the early churchmen. |