buckling
/ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.69 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A folding into hills and valleys.
noun
The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
noun
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure."
- "The rail might still buckle when it's extremely cold. A signals box, that's a metal box on the side of the right of way, might still overheat. So we need to make sure that our operational capacity to respond to those potential disruptions and address them as quickly as possible is a really robust part of our operations. Rail buckling is kind of part of the business in some capacity. That's what we hear from other transit agencies working in the South for example, with extreme heat."
- "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."