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A double sling made of a single rope for slinging a cask, gun, or other object.

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Usage examples (6)
  • "parbuckle" on board her spars lying alongside her in the stream, fit her rigging, bend her sails, stow her hold, and present her all a-taunt-o to the men who were to...
  • After refitting, we went for a cruise to the East Indies, where we found the new admiral who had come out to replace Admiral Hope; and, in the spring of the following year,...
  • "We must pass straps round this, and parbuckle him up," he observed.
  • 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.
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