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See also: Bückling
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
buckling (plural bucklings)
- The act of fastening a buckle.
- (geology) 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).
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
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Adjective[edit]
buckling (comparative more buckling, superlative most buckling)
Verb[edit]
buckling
- present participle and gerund of buckle
References[edit]
“buckling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
buckling (plural bucklings)
- 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.
- 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715,
Usage notes[edit]
- (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.[1]
Etymology 3[edit]
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[edit]
buckling (plural bucklings)
Coordinate terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
smoked herring
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- 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 [Van Dale Great Dictionary, English–Dutch], 3rd edition, volume I, Utrecht, Antwerp: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN.
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