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buskle en · VERB

Etymology

From busk + -le (frequentative suffix).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, often, reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle
   • The king will not 'buskle' himself to assault some other country; and, the next day, those of Guieime began to 'buskle' themselves to stand to their defence. 1904, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series ... - Page xxxvi:
   • For these reasons some historiographers have shrunk back from their task; others, being stout-hearted men, contemptuously trample their critics underfoot, and do not hesitate to “buskle forward, and rush through the pikes of their quipping nips [taunting sarcasm] and biting frumps [jeers]". 2011, St John D. Seymour, Anglo-Irish Literature: 1200-1582 - Page 156:

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