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parbuckles

parbuckles is the plural of parbuckle.

parbuckles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of parbuckle.

Meaning of parbuckle

Noun

parbuckle (plural parbuckles)

  1. 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.
  2. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

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Questions about parbuckles

What is parbuckles the plural of?
Parbuckles is the plural of parbuckle.

Words near parbuckles in the dictionary

  1. parbreaking
  2. parbreaks
  3. Parbroath
  4. parbuckle
  5. parbuckled
  6. parbuckles
  7. parbuckling
  8. parbunkel
  9. parbunkels
  10. Parbury
  11. parbutties

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