buskle
verbEtymology From busk + -le (frequentative suffix).
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Ambitransitive, Often 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: