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kneebuckles

kneebuckles is the plural of kneebuckle.

Meaning of kneebuckle

Noun

kneebuckle (plural kneebuckles)

  1. A buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.
    • By the bye a droll accident happened here on Thursday, Wadd and Plumley got quarrelling about a kneebuckle of Hyde's which the latter affirmed not to be standard; Wadd was nettled at this, and said something reflecting on tradesmen and shopkeepers, and Plumley struck him.1888, Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, The Letters of Charles Lamb - Volume 2, page 18

Questions about kneebuckles

What is kneebuckles the plural of?
Kneebuckles is the plural of kneebuckle.

Words near kneebuckles in the dictionary

  1. kneeboarders
  2. kneeboarding
  3. kneeboards
  4. kneebound
  5. kneebuckle
  6. kneebuckles
  7. kneecap
  8. kneecapped
  9. kneecapper
  10. kneecappers
  11. kneecapping

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