Definitions For Parbuckle

Verb

parbuckl To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

Noun

PARBUCKLE (plural PARBUCKLEs) 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. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

Translations

Maori: kete

Alternative forms

parbunkell, parbunkel, parbunkle, parbuncle

Etymology

Earliest forms are parbuncle, parbunkel and parbunkle. Of {{unk, en, title=unknown}} earlier origin. Influenced by buckle#etymology 2, buckle and {{etyl, fr, en}} boucle, , loop