Parbuckle

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, n.
     (a) 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.


     (b) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a
         cask, gun, etc.
         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parbuckled}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Parbuckling}.]
     To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. --Totten.
     [1913 Webster]