Definition of "bucklers" [bucklers]

• Plural form of buckler. (noun)

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• "V. ii.l7 (327,4) [I give thee the bucklers] I suppose that _to give the bucklers_ is, _to yield_, or _to lay by all thoughts of defence_, so _clipeum abjicere_."
• "I saw wonders without number or count, amongst others a fish like a cow which bringeth forth its young and suckleth them like human beings; and of its skin bucklers are made. 36 There were eke fishes like asses and camels37 and tortoises twenty cubits wide. 38"
• "After fifteen hundred years of constitutional study as to methods of raising on the bucklers, which is the operation of operations, the English People, surely pretty well skilled in it by this time, has raised -- the remarkable individual now addressing you."