buckler

n. 小圆盾, 防卫物, 防卫 vt. 以盾防护, 防卫

发音

UK /ˈbʌk.lə/
其它
US /ˈbʌk.lɚ/

词形变化

bucklers 复数 bucklers bucklered bucklering bucklers 三单 bucklering 现在分词 bucklered 过去式 bucklered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who buckles something.

  2. 2.

    A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (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.

    小圆盾

    小型盾

  3. 3.

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

    废旧
  4. 4.

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

    生物 动物学
  5. 5.

    The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.

    生物 动物学
  6. 6.

    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.

    航海 交通
v.
  1. 1.

    To shield; to defend.

    废旧 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

shield

上位词 2

armor armour

下位词 4

escutcheon pavis pavise scutcheon

相关短语

buckler plate buckler plates buckler fern [网络] ler ern buckler ferns

词源

From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.

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