parbuckle

American  

[pahr-buhk-uhl] / ˈpɑrˌbʌk əl /

noun

1. a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.

2. a kind of double sling made with a rope, as around a cask to be raised or lowered.

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verb (used with object)

parbuckled, parbuckling

1. to raise, lower, or move with a parbuckle.

parbuckle British  

/ ˈpɑːˌbʌkəl /

noun

1. a rope sling for lifting or lowering a heavy cylindrical object, such as a cask or tree trunk

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verb

1. (tr) to raise or lower (an object) with such a sling

Etymology

Origin of parbuckle

First recorded in 1620–30; earlier parbunkel, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

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parbuckle parbuckled parbuckling

The OED cites the Manual of Seamanship for Boys: "A parbuckle... is used for hauling up or lowering down a cask... where there is no crane or tackle."It's owl.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2013

Which of the following best describes a "parbuckle"? 18th Century term for pumping water 19th Century term for rolling 19th Century term for lifting barrels in a sling pony dove owl It's Hawick.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2013

They'd left some gear behind them, but we were most of two days cutting and heaving the beast out with a parbuckle under him.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus

This formed a parbuckle, and when the men hauled upon the upper lengths of the ropes the cask easily rolled up to the ends of the lower lengths.

From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by Rainey, W. (William)

They’d left some gear behind them, but we were most of two days cutting and heaving the beast out with a parbuckle under him.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold

Guns are parbuckled up steep cliffs without their carriages, and spars in timber-yards are so dealt with.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

It was first got alongside, two ropes were passed over it, and it was parbuckled on board.

From The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

A pair of wheels followed the carriage, and then after a brief interval the huge gun, "parbuckled" from the edge of the cliff, was lowered into position.

From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

The boatswain's whistle sounded, and starting their anchor song the men tramped round and round, the ropes tightened, and the heavy spar was parbuckled up on to the deck.

From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The lower mast had already been parbuckled on to the deck, where sheer-legs had been erected by another party.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

“We jumped up and down in happiness when the parbuckling was completed,” Mr. Cedioli remembered.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

The 950-foot-long, 114,000-ton vessel was impaled on underwater granite outcrops until being righted last September in a painstaking, 19-hour operation called parbuckling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2014

The Costa Condordia has been raised using a process called "parbuckling".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2013

But once the parbuckling process begins, there is no turning back, Sloane says.

From Newsweek ● Jan. 13, 2013

Sloane estimates that his crew will be able to roll the ship to an upright position, a maneuver known as parbuckling, by the first week of July if the weather cooperates.

From Newsweek ● Jan. 13, 2013