Buckler
/ˈbʌk.lə/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:15 ptsWWF:19 pts7 letters
Definition of Buckler
noun
- One who buckles something.
- A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held with a hand (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.
- A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
- One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
- The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobites.
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