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n. A small, round shield either carried or worn on the arm.

n. A means of protection; a defense: "has enjoyed a reputation as a shield and buckler for . . . the academic avant-garde” ( Donal Henahan).

v. To shield; protect.

n. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.

n. A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

n. One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

n. The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

n. A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.

v. To shield; to defend.

n. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

n.

n. One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.

n. The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

n. A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.

v. To shield; to defend.

n. A shield; specifically, a small shield intended to parry blows or thrusts, but not so large as to cover the body.

n. Nautical, a piece of wood fitted to stop the hawse-holes of a ship, to prevent the sea from coming in, or to stop the circular hole in a port-lid when the gun is run in. Hawse-bucklers are now made of iron.

n. The anterior segment of the carapace or shell of a trilobite.

n. A plate on the body or head of a fish; especially, a plate in front of the dorsal fin in various catfishes, or Nematognathi.

n. A stage of the molting American blue crab, Callinectes hastatus, when the shell has become nearly hard.

n. A piece of beef cut off from the sirloin.

To be a buckler or shield to; support; defend.

n. armor carried on the arm to intercept blows

"His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle."

bucklered    bucklering    bucklers   

Armour    armor   

protector    blind buckler   

pavis    scutcheon    escutcheon    pavise   

shield    defend   

corselet    breastplate    targe    battle-axe    headpiece    scimitar    javelin    gorget    sabre    dirk