parbuckle Meaning, Definition & Usage

Par"buc`kle noun
Definitions
  1. A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.
  2. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Par"buc`kle transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Parbuckled ; present participle & verbal noun Parbuckling
Definitions
  1. To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. Totten.

Webster 1913