Buckling vs Fasten - What's the difference?
buckling | fasten |
(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
* 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living , Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1-57061-377-X, page 715,
* 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=nWCLpQFrdnMC] Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 0-8121-1478-7, page 429,
* 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West , Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0395901316, page 161,
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To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between buckling and fasten
is that buckling is red herring (smoke-cured herring) or buckling can be bow while fasten is .buckling
English
Etymology 1
From the verb .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.
- The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.
- I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings ) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.
Usage notes
* (young male goat) Not all sources agree on the exact age range for which this term applies; for example, one source applies it to kids as young as six months.Stephen W. Barnett, “Goats”, in Stephen W. Barnett (ed.), Manual of Animal Technology ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=Jv8jIGZ2HGsC] Blackwell Publishing (2007), ISBN 0632055936, page 140: “male from 6 months to 2 years of age”.Etymology 3
cognate with (etyl) bockinc and (etyl) bocking (itself from , referencing the foul smell)See also
* stockfishReferences
fasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him
