ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  1.  a. Fastened with a buckle. b. Provided with buckles. c. Joined closely, united.

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1394.  P. Pl. Crede, 299. Nou han þei bucled schon.

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c. 1420.  Anturs of Arth., xxix. 4. Her belte was … Beten with besandus, and bocult ful bene.

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c. 1460.  J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 896, in Babees Bk. (1868), 178. His schon laced or bokelid, draw them on sure.

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1876.  Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., I. 5. He wore … stout buckled shoes.

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  2.  Doubled or bent up, wrinkled, crumpled, knitted; bent in a double curve. Buckled plates (Mech.), see quot. 1852.

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1564.  Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), iii. 2. The buckled browes of majestie shall be bent against them.

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1666.  Pepys, Diary (1879), IV. 77. And took up a piece of glasse melted and buckled like parchment.

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1852.  Specif. R. Mallet’s Patent, No. 557. Plates of iron … bent into a peculiar convex and concave form, which I denominate ‘buckled plates.’

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  † 3.  Crisped and curled. See BUCKLE sb. 3. Obs.

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1753.  Richardson, Grandison (ed. 7), I. 98. Sir Rowland … in his full buckled wig.

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1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1815), 130. I have had my hair … singed, and bolstered, and buckled, in the newest fashion.

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1861.  Wynter, Soc. Bees, 524. This buckled hair is … the same as that denounced by the early churchmen.

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