buckling

About 1.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of fastening a buckle.
2. noun A folding into hills and valleys.
3. noun The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
4. adjective Wavy; curly, as hair.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

5. verb present participle and gerund of buckle
6. noun A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
7. noun Smoked herring.

Similar words

warp crumple heave clasp swash warping dumping collapsing crumpling folding

Often followed by

of load and is stress in on under loads