broquel — meaning in English

English meaning

• buckler noun A person who fastens something with a buckle.
• float verb To rest or stay on the surface of a liquid instead of sinking.

Senses

broquel is used for these senses in English:

• buckler (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
• float A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.

buckler — full definition

1. noun A person who fastens something with a buckle.
2. noun A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
3. noun A shield like the large Roman scutum, though the word today usually means a smaller kind of shield.
4. noun One of the large bony plates on the outside of certain hard-scaled fish.

float — full definition

1. verb To rest or stay on the surface of a liquid instead of sinking.
2. verb To drift gently through the air.
3. verb To suggest an idea for people to consider.
4. verb To sell a company's shares to the public for the first time on a stock exchange.
5. noun A device that keeps something buoyant in water.

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