The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, n.
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.
A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Parbuckle \Par"buc`kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parbuckled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Parbuckling.]
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
Usage examples of "parbuckle".
Then, only seconds later it seemed, he was being hoisted and then parbuckled into the boat, coughing up salt water.
The 12-pounder had been parbuckled to the peak and the carriage hauled to the top while the tub was coming up for the second time.
Aitken and his men had hooked tackles into the slings, taking the weight of the gun and holding it at the top of the cliff ready to start parbuckling it the rest of the way to the top.