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1. (n.) parbuckle
a tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or vertical surface.
2. parbuckle
a double sling made with a rope, as around a cask to be raised or lowered.
3. (v.t.) parbuckle
to move with a parbuckle.
Etymology: (1620–30; earlier parbunkel, of uncert. orig.)
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1. (noun) parbuckle
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
2. (noun) parbuckle
a double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc
3. (verb) parbuckle
to hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
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