kneebuckle

English

Etymology

knee +‎ buckle

Noun

kneebuckle (plural kneebuckles)

1. A buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.
   • 1888, Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, The Letters of Charles Lamb - Volume 2, page 18:

     By the bye a droll accident happened here on Thursday, Wadd and Plumley got quarrelling about a kneebuckle of Hyde's which the latter affirmed not to be standard; Wadd was nettled at this, and said something reflecting on tradesmen and shopkeepers, and Plumley struck him.

   • 1896, Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors - Volume 2, page 723:

     On an indictment on the 12 Geo. 2, c. 26, s. 8, 31 Geo. 2, 32, s. 14, and 24 Geo. 3, c 53, s. 16, for removing from one silver kneebuckle to another silver kneebuckle certain stamps, marks, and impressions, to wit, the King's head and the lion rampant, with intent to defraud the King, against the statute, &c. ; on producing the silver kneebuckle in evidence, it appeared that the mark was a lion passant, instead of a lion rampant; and the Court held the variance fatal.

   • 1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36:

     Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.