bucklings

Noun (1)

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. The act of fastening a buckle.
2. 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).
   • Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27

Noun (2)

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
   • If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715

Noun (3)

buckling (plural bucklings)

1. Smoked herring.

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