Sekirov Dictionary

buckling

/ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/

noun 5
adjective 1
forms 3

noun5

A folding into hills and valleys.
•
The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
- Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure. — 2021
The act of fastening a buckle.
•
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
- If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat. — 1994
Smoked herring.

adjective1

Wavy; curly, as hair.

forms

bucklings · more buckling · most buckling

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome