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Definitions for parbuckle
ˈpɑrˌbʌk əlpar·buck·le

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Wiktionary

  1. parbucklenoun

    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. parbucklenoun

    A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

  3. parbuckleverb

    To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

Webster Dictionary

  1. Parbucklenoun

    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. Parbucklenoun

    a double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc

  3. Parbuckleverb

    to hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. parbuckle

    A method of hauling up or lowering down a cask, or any cylindrical object, where there is no crane or tackle; the middle of a rope is passed round a post, the two ends are then passed under the two quarters of the cask, bringing the ends back again over it, and they being both hauled or slackened together, either raise or lower the cask, &c., as may be required. The parbuckle is frequently used in public-house vaults. Guns are parbuckled up steep cliffs without their carriages, and spars in timber-yards are so dealt with.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. parbuckle

    To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of parbuckle in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of parbuckle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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  • Raymond C Evans
    Raymond C Evans
    A parbuckle is how big redwood logs were loaded on flatcars in my father's time as a logger. I've used that method to move heavy object many times in my working years!
    LikeReply8 years ago

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