buckling
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbʌk.lɪŋ/
buckling (plural bucklings)
- The act of fastening a buckle.
- (geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
- The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
buckling
Verb- present participle of buckle#English|buckle
buckling (plural bucklings)
- A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
- 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1-57061-377-X, 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 0-8121-1478-7, 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 0395901316, page 161,
- I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.
- 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, ISBN 1-57061-377-X, page 715,
buckling (plural bucklings)
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002