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parbuckle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
par-buck-le
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.

noun

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

verb

To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

Etymology

Earliest forms are parbuncle, parbunkel and parbunkle. Of unknown earlier origin. Influenced by buckle and French boucle (“loop”)

Inflected Forms

parbuckles (plural) parbunkell (alternative) parbunkel (alternative) parbunkle (alternative) parbuncle (alternative) parbuckles (present, singular) parbuckling (participle, present) parbuckled (participle, past) parbuckled (past)

Questions

What does parbuckle mean?
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
Where does parbuckle come from?
Earliest forms are parbuncle, parbunkel and parbunkle. Of unknown earlier origin. Influenced by buckle and French boucle (“loop”)

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