Verb

(buckl)

To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled , preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

To make bend; to cause to become distorted.

(figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).

It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.

To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

* Samuel Pepys

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle .

(obsolete) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.

* Latimer

The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.

* Shakespeare

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.

To buckle down; to apply oneself.

* Barrow

To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.

* J. D. Forbes

Before buckling to my winter's work.

* Fuller

Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.

Verb

To fasten using a buckle.

(Scotland) To unite in marriage.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Verb

(clipp)

To grip tightly.

To fasten with a clip.

Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.

(archaic) To hug, embrace.

* Shakespeare

O that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, / Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.

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(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

Verb

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

She clipped my hair with her scissors.

Please clip that coupon out of the newspaper.

* Macaulay

sentenced to have his ears clipped

To curtail; to cut short.

* Shakespeare

All my reports go with the modest truth; / No more nor clipped , but so.

* Jonathan Swift

In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.

(dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.

I'll clip ye round the lugs!

(American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.

(signal processing) to cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value

(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.