Y. S. M.

"_Buckle_" (Vol. viii., pp. 127. 304. 526.).--An awkward person, working

incautiously with a saw, will probably, to use a carpenter's phrase,

_buckle_ it; that is, give it a bend or twist which will injure its

working.

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