What is the meaning of PARBUCKLE. Phrases containing PARBUCKLE
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A method of lifting a roughly cylindrical object such as a barrel. One end of a line is made fast above the object. Then a loop of line is lowered and passed around the object, which can now be raised more easily by hauling on the free end of rope.
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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.
n.
A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Parbuckle
v. t.
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
imp. & p. p.
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