BUCKLEn.
1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.
2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.
3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.
BUCKLEv.t.
To fasten with a buckle, or buckles.
1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.
2. To join in battle.
3. To confine or limit
A span buckles in his sum of age.