parbuckles
Meaning of parbuckles
plural noun
a loop of rope arranged like a sling, used for raising or lowering casks and other cylindrical objects.
verb, 3rd person present- raise or lower with a parbuckle.
the gun has to be parbuckled across a ditch
early 17th century: from earlier parbunkle, of unknown origin. The change in the ending was due to association with buckle.
Information about parbuckles
- The singular form of parbuckles is: parbuckle.
- Languages in which parbuckles is used:
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Hyphenation of parbuckles
par-buck-les
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- parbuckles is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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