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Rarebuckler
The correct spelling is buckler.
How to pronounce buckler
noun
IPA: /ˈbʌk.lə/
Say it like: Buk-ler
The correct spelling is buckler. One who buckles something.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.One who buckles something.
- 2.A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held with a hand (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.
- 3.A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
- 4.One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- 5.The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobites.
verb
- 1.To shield; to defend.
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