parbuckle

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: par=buck=le

CIDE DICTIONARY

parbuckle, n. 

 A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.  [1913 Webster]

parbuckle, v. t. 

 To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.  Totten.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parbuckle, n. & v.
--n. a rope arranged like a sling, for raising or lowering casks and cylindrical objects.
--v.tr. raise or lower with this.

Etymology

earlier parbunkle, of unkn. orig.: assoc. with BUCKLE

ROGET THESAURUS

parbuckle

Instrument

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