parbunkel

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"A Parbunkel is two ropes that have at each end a noose or lumpe [loop?] that being crossed, you may set any vessell that hath but one head upon them, bringing but the loopes over the upper end of the caske, fix but the tackle to them, and then the vessell will stand strait in the middest to heave out, or take in without spilling."

Of unknown origin.

parbunkels (plural)

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