单词 | parbuckle |
释义 | parbucklen. A rope, cable, etc., arranged like a sling, used to raise or lower heavy objects vertically; a similar contrivance used to move a heavy object up or down an inclined plane, the object acting as a movable pulley in a rope-and-pulley system. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > sling sling1323 parbuckle1625 butt sling1642 loop1883 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope used as movable pulley parbuckle1625 1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (MS BL Add. 21571) 182 A Parbuncle is a rape which is used in ye nature of a paire of Slings. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 The canhookes, slings and parbunkels. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 21 A Parbunkel is two ropes that haue at each end a noose or lumpe [perh. read 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. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Parbunkle (in Navigation), a roap seased together at both ends; and so put double about the Cask to hoise it in by. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum 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. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Parbuckle, a contrivance used by sailors to lower a cask or bale from any height into a boat. 1779 Remembrancer 8 372 50 fathoms of skid and parbuckle rope. 1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. II. 65 By means of planks, and tackles, and parbuckles, they succeeded in dragging the gun up to the flag-staff. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The parbuckle is frequently used in public-house vaults. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 92 A parbuckle..is used for hauling up or lowering down a cask..where there is no crane or tackle. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 812/2 The north-west coast Indians hoisted the logs that formed the plates of their house frames into position with skids and parbuckles of rope. 1997 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 21/5 In her report..on building the Pyramids, Aisling Irwin describes what is probably the most ancient method of pulling heavy weights uphill..without even using the word ‘parbuckle’—a literary achievement in itself! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parbucklev. transitive. To raise or lower using a parbuckle. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise by mechanical instrument > with a winch, crank, etc. to wind upc1275 winch1529 upwind1600 parbuckle1768 crank1883 whorl1886 to turn up1911 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > by mechanical means to turn down1551 parbuckle1768 to strike down1778 to hoist down1794 to jack down1893 to wind down1961 1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 60 Our Capt ordered what Sailors tarried..if possabile [sic] to parbuckell the small Guns on Shoar. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xiv. 98 We parbuckled Louis into his shore-grave. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. v. 67 You might parbuckle it up to the very top. 1890 Daily 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. 1971 Guardian 18 Jan. 7/3 He righted her by parbuckling with cables and winches. 1993 Lloyd's List 11 Mar. 4 With the victim lying in the bight of the ladder, the strop is hauled upwards to parbuckle the victim out of the water and level with the gunwale. Derivatives ˈparbuckling n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [noun] > taking or lifting up > using parbuckle parbuckling1859 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > lowering down > by specific means parbuckling1859 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 131 Where there is a swell, parbuckling is not to be attempted. 1999 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Autumn 10/1 A cable was coiled around the timber and..as the winch was engaged the trunk turned and rolled onto the trailer... The official term for this is parbuckling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625v.1768 |
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