buckle
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Searchable Lemmata: boucle (AF), buccula (L), bokel (ME), bwcl (W), bukkil (OScots), buckle (MdE), buccularis (L), búcla (Ir).
Alternate Forms: bocle, bokel, bokele, bokell, bokil, bokill, bucele, buchle, bucle, bukel, bukele, bukill, bukylle, boclil, bokle, bukel, bukle, boucle, bogil, bouglus, bocheles, buclus, bucculus, bucularis, bucladh.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
device used for fastening a strap or belt, usually functional, sometimes also decorative, usually metal; consisting of a loop or frame, and at least one tooth or chape. A decorative plate may be added, sometimes also a counterplate to make a symmetrical ornament; important artefact as a chronological/social indicator accessory. Produced many derivative agent nouns such as buckler, bokeler (ME), buklar (OScots), etc.(ante 1200 still in current use)
11. accipe corium bovis marine et fac zonam; et buccolam ejus fac de balena; et ligamina ejus buccule fac de dente balene
Medical.
[DMLBS GAD. (95 v. 2) ante 1350]
12. [1077] ... A robe..With orfrays leyd was everydeell, And portraied in the ribanynges Of dukes storyes, and of kynges ... [1082] ... Aboute hir nekke of gentyl entayle Was shet the riche chevesaile, In which ther was full gret plente Of stones clere ... [1086] ... Rychesse a girdell hadde upon; The bokel of it was of a stoon Of vertu gret.
Poetic, Romance, Vision.
[MED RRose ((Htrn 409) 1077-1086) ante 1425]
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.)
Armour;
either the boss of a shield, or a buckler, a small, hand-held shield (also fig.).(ante 1100 - ante 1500)
4. [8526] ... En l’escu le colp descendi, Desqu’a la bocle le fendi ... [8541] ... E le nasel ... Li ad malmis e detrenché, E la ventaille ... [8695] ... La genoillere od tote la chalce Fist loinz voler en la place
Heroic, Poetic, Romance.
[AND Gui War (8526-8695) circa 1210]
5. [642] ... His berde was to is brest ywax; To his gerder heng is fax ... [665] ... His armes wer of rede kolour ... [668] ... Haslak smot Reinbroun anon, Þat to þe bokel þe schel chon.
Heroic, Romance.
[MED Reinbrun ((Auch) p.642-668) circa 1330]
Sex: Male Use: Military Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Hand.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, from Anglo-French / Old French boucle, < Latin buccula (the diminuative of bucca, 'cheek'). Popular etymology suggests that the name was associated with the buckle used on the chin-strap of a helmet. Use of Latin buccula in the sense 'buckle' is not attested earlier than the use of Old French boucle (known on the Continent from c. 1080, though the word is not attested in British sources until the twelfth century); however the Old English glosses (of uncertain date) seem to show the sense 'shield boss' for Latin buccula known in Britain before 1100.
Risk (1968) §29 assigns búcla to an earlier group of French loanwords into Irish; Modern Scottish Gaelic bucall is a later borrowing from Scots.
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