buckle to

English

Verb

buckle to (third-person singular simple present buckles to, present participle buckling to, simple past and past participle buckled to)

  1. (intransitive, colloquial) To set to work.
    • 1929, Donald John Munro, The Roaring Forties and After, page 38:
      He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done; when we were admitted to the kitchen and given a really good meal.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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