buckle to join in close fight, to engage with,
to encounter:
“buckle with me,”
1 HENRY VI., i. 2. 95
;
“too strong for me to buckle with,”
1 HENRY VI., v. 3. 28
;
“buckle with thee blows”
3 HENRY VI., i. 4. 50
(deal blows with thee in close fight);
“Be buckled with,”
1 HENRY VI., iv. 4. 5.