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▪ I. parbuckle, n.|ˈpɑːbʌk(ə)l|
Also 7 -bunkel, -bunkle, 8–9 -buncle.
[Orig. parbunkle, -buncle, of unknown origin; about 1760 associated by popular etymology with buckle]
A device for raising or lowering heavy objects, either vertically or in an inclined plane, by means of a rope of which both ends are passed round the object. a. A sling formed by passing the two ends of a rope round the object and through a bight of the rope, and tightening, the weight of the object serving to keep it tight. (See also quot. 1627.) b. A rope having a bight looped round a post, etc., at the level to or from which the object is to be raised or lowered, and the two ends passed round the object, and hauled in or paid out to raise or lower it, the object acting as a movable pulley; used in hoisting casks or other cylindrical bodies, also in Capt. Cunningham's method of furling a sail by hoisting the yard in the bight of the chain.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 The canhookes, slings, and parbunkels. 1627― Seaman's Gram. v. 21 A Parbunkel is two ropes that haue at each end a noose or lumpe [? loope] that being crossed, you may set any vessell that hath but one head vpon them, bringing but the loopes ouer the vpper end of the caske, fix but the tackle to them, and then the vessell will stand strait..to heaue out, or take in without spilling. 1658Phillips, A Parbunkle (in Navigation), a roap seased together at both ends; and so put double about the Cask to hoise it in by. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Parbuncle,..a Rope in a Ship, almost like a pair of Slings; 'tis seized both Ends together, and then put double about any heavy thing that is to be hoised in or out of the Ship; having the Hook of the Runner hitched into it to hoise it up by. 1731–1800Bailey, Parbuncle (Sea Term). 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776), Parbuckle. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Parbuckle. 1831J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. II. 65 By means of planks, and tackles, and parbuckles, they succeeded in dragging the gun up to the flag-staff. 1838Encycl. Brit., Parbuncle [same as quot. 1704]. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., The parbuckle is frequently used in public-house vaults.
attrib.1779in Almon Remembrancer VIII. 372, 50 fathoms of skid and parbuckle rope.
▪ II. ˈparbuckle, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To raise or lower (a cask, gun, etc.) by the device of a parbuckle: see prec. b.
1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son xcvi, We parbuckled Louis into his shore-grave. 1833Marryat P. Simple xliii, You might parbuckle it up to the very top. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 110 To parbuckle a gun is to roll it so as to cause it to move in either direction from the spot on which it rests. 1890Daily News 19 Aug. 3/2 The gun..has then to be dismounted down the rear on watered skids, moved then on rollers, and parbuckled across a ditch.
Hence ˈparbuckling vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 131 Where there is a swell, parbuckling is not to be attempted. Ibid., The ends of the parbuckling skids should rest on the dunnage. |