buskle

English

Etymology

From busk +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

buskle (third-person singular simple present buskles, present participle buskling, simple past and past participle buskled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, often reflexive) To prepare or equip; make ready; set out; hurry about; bustle
   • 1904, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series ... - Page xxxvi:

     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.

   • 2011, St John D. Seymour, Anglo-Irish Literature: 1200-1582 - Page 156:

     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]".