n.
Pronunciation: ' pär- ˌ b ə -k ə l
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1626
: a purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical object by making fast the middle of a long rope aloft and looping both ends around the object which rests in the loops and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or paid out also : a single line made fast at one end and passed around an object that is used similarly
– parbuckle transitive verb
parbuckle