[f. prec.]

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  1.  trans. To act as a buckler to; to shield, defend, protect.

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1590.  Marlowe, Edw. II., I. iv. 579. ’Tis not the king can buckler Gaveston.

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1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., III. iii. 99. Can Oxford … Now buckler Falsehood with a Pedigree?

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1861.  J. G. Sheppard, Fall Rome, IV. 227. These new nationalities … bucklered the Empire against their [the Avars’] blows.

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  † 2.  trans. To ward or catch (blows).

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1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., I. iv. 50. I will … buckler with thee blowes twice two for one.

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