name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
buckler
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk.lə/
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General-American: /ˈbʌk.lɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: B AH1 K AH0 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: B AH1 K L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who buckles something.
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noun
Meaning 3
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (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.
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noun
Meaning 4
A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Meaning 6
The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Meaning 7
A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 8
To shield; to defend.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
Meaning 9
armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shield
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Broader terms: armor, armour
Narrower terms: escutcheon, scutcheon, pavis, pavise
History
Etymology
From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تُرْس (turs) — small shield
- Aramaic: ܡܓܰܢܳܐ (məgannā) — small shield
- Aramaic: ܡܓܶܢܳܐ (məgennā) — small shield
- Aramaic: ܣܰܟܪܳܐ (sakkərā) — small shield
- Catalan: escut — small shield
- Catalan: broquer — small shield
- Chinese Mandarin: 小圆盾 — small shield
- Chinese Mandarin: 小型盾 — small shield
- Czech: pukléř — small shield
- Dutch: beukelaar — small shield
- French: bouclier — small shield
- French: bocle — small shield
- Georgian: ფარი (pari) — small shield
- German: Faustschild — small shield
- German: Tartsche — small shield
- Greek: ασπίδα (aspída) — small shield
- Ancient Greek: ᾰ̓σπίς (ăspís) — small shield
- Hungarian: pajzs — small shield
- Irish: eochairsciath — small shield
- Italian: brocchiero — small shield
- Māori: whakangungu rākau — small shield
- Māori: whakangungu — small shield
- Persian: ترس (tors) — small shield
- Persian: مجن (mejann) — small shield
- Persian: مگند (magend) — small shield
- Middle Persian: magind — small shield
- Polish: puklerz — small shield
- Portuguese: broquel — small shield
- Russian: баклер (bakler) — small shield
- Spanish: escudo — small shield
- Spanish: rodela — small shield
Real reading context