buckling

noun

1. The act of fastening a buckle.
2. A folding into hills and valleys.
3. The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).

   “Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.”

4. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.

   “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.”

5. Smoked herring.

adj

1. Wavy; curly, as hair.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of buckle