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buskle

buskle verb: to prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle.

Verb

buskle (third-person singular simple present buskles, present participle buskling, simple past and past participle buskled)

  1. (ambitransitive, often, reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle
    • 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.1904, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series ... - Page xxxvi
    • 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]".2011, St John D. Seymour, Anglo-Irish Literature: 1200-1582 - Page 156

Forms of buskle

third-person singular presentbuskles
present participlebuskling
past participlebuskled
pastbuskled

Origin of buskle

From busk + -le (frequentative suffix).

Questions about buskle

What does buskle mean?
Buskle means to prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle.
What part of speech is buskle?
Buskle is a verb.
What is the past tense of buskle?
The past tense of buskle is buskled.

Words near buskle in the dictionary

  1. busking it
  2. buskings
  3. buskins
  4. Buskirk
  5. Buskirks
  6. buskle
  7. buskled
  8. buskles
  9. buskling
  10. Busko
  11. busks

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