Buckling

The leader of the new republic is buckling under political pressures.

Smoked herring is called buckling.

In either case, survival involves climbing into a spherical aluminum pod, and buckling in for what is sure to be the ride of your life.

Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.

1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715, If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.

1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 429, 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.

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, page 161, I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.