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English
Etymology 1
From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
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)
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Adjective
buckling (comparative more buckling, superlative most buckling)
- Wavy; curly, as hair.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Verb
buckling
- 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
Noun
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, 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.[1]
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)
- Smoked herring.
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References
- ^ Stephen W. Barnett, “Goats”, in Stephen W. Barnett (ed.), Manual of Animal Technology, Blackwell Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 140: “male from 6 months to 2 years of age”.
- 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 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.