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1 Henry VI: buckled

By Scott Granneman / 16 January 2007 16 January 2007 / language & literature, word of the day / language, literature, shakespeare, war

From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (IV: 4):

SOMERSET:

It is too late; I cannot send them now:
This expedition was by York and Talbot
Too rashly plotted: all our general force
Might with a sally of the very town
Be buckled with …

buckled: encountered; To give way; collapse

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