kneebuckleEtymologyFrom knee + buckle.nounA buckle that fastens the kneeband on a leg of a pair of knee breeches.“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.”