Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BUCK'LE, v.i.

To bend; to bow; as, to buckle under life. – Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to apply with vigor; to engage with zeal. – Locke. To buckle in, to close in; to embrace or seize the body, as in a scuffle; a popular use in America. To buckle with, to encounter with embrace; to join in close combat. – Dryden.