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[The biographical notices of Endymion Porter are extremely scanty. Can our correspondent furnish any particulars respecting him?—Ed.]
Buckle (Vol. viii., p. 304.).—This word is in common use by the artizans who work upon sheet-iron, to denote the curl which a sheet of iron acquires in passing through a pair of rollers. The word has been derived from the French boucle, a curl. The shoe-buckle has got its name from its curved form. In the days in which every man in this country, who was in easy circumstances, wore a wig, it was well known that to put a wig in buckle, meant to arrange its curls in due form.
"When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend
The wretch, who living sav'd a candle's end:
Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands,
Belies his features, nay, extends his hands;
That live-long wig which Gorgon's self might own,
Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone."—Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III.
N. W. S.