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parbuckle

Parbuckle is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter P and ends with the letter E for which we found 3 definitions.

Definition
(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.
(n.) A double sling made of a single rope for slinging a cask gun etc.
(v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
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