PARBUCKLE


Meaning of PARBUCKLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpär-ˌbə-kəl ]

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.