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buckler sb.: shield; “I give thee the bucklers” (=I own that you are the better man) Ado V. ii. 17. ∥ Similar phrases were ‘to yield, lay down the bucklers’; the opposite was expressed by ‘to carry away the bucklers’.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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