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English
Etymology
From busk + -le (frequentative suffix).
Verb
buskle (third-person singular simple present buskles, present participle buskling, simple past and past participle buskled)
- (transitive, intransitive, often reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle
1904, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series ... - Page xxxvi:The king will not 'buskle' himself to assault some other country; and, the next day, those of Guieime began to 'buskle' themselves to stand to their defence.
2011, St John D. Seymour, Anglo-Irish Literature: 1200-1582 - Page 156:For these reasons some historiographers have shrunk back from their task; others, being stout-hearted men, contemptuously trample their critics underfoot, and do not hesitate to “buskle forward, and rush through the pikes of their quipping nips [taunting sarcasm] and biting frumps [jeers]".