"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 sail her. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
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, having served for eighteen months as a naval cadet, I was promoted to the rank of midshipman, the captain and first lieutenant, having convinced themselves of my competency by asking me how I would manage to get a six-pounder to the top of a perpendicular hill, my answer to which question was that I would head it up in a cask and "parbuckle" it up. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
"We must pass straps round this, and parbuckle him up," he observed. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in a Boat] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson] Reference
Newton hove to, tossed out the little skiff, and in the course of an hour, unknown to his captain, who was in bed sleeping off the effect of his last potations, brought alongside, and contrived to parbuckle in, the casks, and as many others of the floating articles as he could conveniently stow upon her decks. From Wordnik.com. [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference
` parbuckle '? ". From Wordnik.com. [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference
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