ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Kneebuckle

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Kneebuckle is a noun meaning A buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.

Meaning

A buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.

Example Sentences

Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.
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.
On an indictment on the 12 Geo. 2, c. 26, s. 8, 31 Geo. 2, 32, s. 14, and 24 Geo. 3, c 53, s. 16, for removing from one silver kneebuckle to another silver kneebuckle certain stamps, marks, and impressions, to wit, the King's head and the lion rampant, with intent to defraud the King, against the statute, &c. ; on producing the silver kneebuckle in evidence, it appeared that the mark was a lion passant, instead of a lion rampant; and the Court held the variance fatal.

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Related dictionary entries include kneeband, knee-band, kneelet, knee-breeches, buckling, knee-cords.

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