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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of buckler.

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Examples

  • The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • “Think not,” said the Templar, “that I have so exposed thee; I would have bucklered thee against such danger with my own bosom, as freely as ever I exposed it to the shafts which had otherwise reached thy life.”

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Coragio then, my brave guest! for if thou layest a petition from Sir Hugh at the foot of the throne, bucklered by the story of thine own wrongs, the favourite Earl dared as soon leap into the Thames at the fullest and deepest, as offer to protect Varney in a cause of this nature.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • I think she bucklered herself with the secret philosophy of her strong mind, and resolved to forget what it irked her to remember.

    Villette 2003

  • ` ` Think not, '' said the Templar, ` ` that I have so exposed thee; I would have bucklered thee against such danger with my own bosom, as freely as ever I exposed it to the shafts which had otherwise reached thy life. ''

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • The intuitions are the bright band, without armor or shield, that slay the mailed and bucklered giants of the understanding.

    Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

  • The most ancient known fish is a Pteraspis, one of the bucklered ganoids or plated fishes -- by no means a very low type -- allied to the sturgeon

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Allen leaps first upon the scene, bucklered as no warrior ever was since the days of Homer or before.

    Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

  • As many men as there are around her, so many knights has such a one, ready bucklered for her service, should occasion require such services.

    North America 1862

  • Gain L3,000 -- loss, the hearts that would have bucklered the

    The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862

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