to buckle to

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. [1913 Webster]

Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.— Pepys.[1913 Webster]

2.To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. [1913 Webster]

3.To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.— Pepys.[1913 Webster]

4.To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. [1913 Webster]

The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.— Latimer.[1913 Webster]

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. [1913 Webster]

To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto.— Barrow.[1913 Webster]

Before buckling to my winter's work.— J. D. Forbes.[1913 Webster]