Definitions from Wiktionary (parbuckle)
▸ noun: A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
▸ noun: A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
▸ verb: To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
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▸ noun: A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
▸ noun: A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
▸ verb: To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
▸ Also see parbuckle
▸ Words similar to parbuckled
▸ Usage examples for parbuckled
▸ Idioms related to parbuckled
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing parbuckled
▸ Words that often appear near parbuckled
▸ Rhymes of parbuckled
▸ Invented words related to parbuckled