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Parbuckle
Pronunciation : Par"buc`kle, n. (a) 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
Part of Speech : etc.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Par"buc`kle
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. Totten.
t. [imp. & p. p. Parbuckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Parbuckling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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