buckling

See also: Bückling

English

Etymology 1

From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. The act of fastening a buckle.
2. (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
3. The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
   • 2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27:

     Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.

Derived terms

• postbuckling

Translations

kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress

• French: flambage (fr) m
• German: Knicken (de) n, Knick (de) m (kink), Knickung f, Stauchung f (bottom out/ compression), Knickbildung f (kinking), Verbiegen n (bend), Beulen (de) n (plate or shell buckling), Ausbeulen n (plate or shell buckling),Wölben n (bulge), Wölbung (de) f (bulge), Bombage f (e.g. of a tin can), Walkung f (buckling of tires)

Adjective

buckling (comparative more buckling, superlative most buckling)

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Verb

buckling

1. present participle and gerund of buckle

References

“buckling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

From buck +‎ -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌk.lɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌklɪŋ
• Hyphenation: buck‧ling

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
   • 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715,

     If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.

   • 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine,^[2] Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 429,

     The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.

   • 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 161,

     I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.

Usage notes

• (young male goat): Not all sources agree on the exact age range for which this term applies; for example, one source applies it to kids as young as six months.

Etymology 3

From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).

Noun

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. Smoked herring.

Coordinate terms

• bloater
• kipper

Translations

smoked herring

• Dutch: bokking (nl)
• Finnish: savusilli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bøkling (no) m

• Swedish: böckling (sv) c

See also

• stockfish

References

• van Veen, P.A.F., van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht, Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN
• W. Martin with G[uy] A. J. Tops, et al. (1998) Van Dale Groot Woordenboek Engels–Nederlands, 3rd edition, volume I, Utrecht, Antwerp: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN.