Kneebuckle
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.
"By the bye a droll accident happened here on Thursday, Wadd and Plumley got quarrelling about a kneebuckle of Hyde's which the latter affirmed not to be standard; Wadd was nettled at this, and said something reflecting on tradesmen and shopkeepers, and Plumley struck him."
Example
More examples"By the bye a droll accident happened here on Thursday, Wadd and Plumley got quarrelling about a kneebuckle of Hyde's which the latter affirmed not to be standard; Wadd was nettled at this, and said something reflecting on tradesmen and shopkeepers, and Plumley struck him."
Etymology
From knee + buckle.
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