PARBUCKLE


Meaning of PARBUCKLE in English

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

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