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Definition of Parbuckle

Parbuckle
Parbuckle Par"buc`kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parbuckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Parbuckling.] To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. --Totten.
Parbuckle
Parbuckle Par"buc`kle, n. (a) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out. (b) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

Meaning of Parbuckle from wikipedia

- Parbuckle salvage, or parbuckling, is the righting of a sunken vessel using rotational leverage. A common operation with smaller watercraft, parbuckling...
- 1965, two U.S. Navy salvage ships, USS Grasp and USS Bolster, used the parbuckle salvage technique to raise Rajah Soliman's wreck from the harbor floor...
- of the biggest maritime salvage operations". On 16 September 2013, the parbuckle salvage of the ship began, and by the early hours of 17 September, the...
- exerting a sideward holding force on a vessel. Also called a water kite. parbuckle A method of lifting a roughly cylindrical object such as a spar. One end...
- capsized and partially sank, killing 32 people. In 2014, the ship was parbuckled and refloated with caissons, and in July 2014, she was towed to the Port...
- ship. As she had remained afloat upside down, a plan was designed to parbuckle the vessel, an exceptional approach for a ship of this size. Cables were...
- trap-door on the footpath using two ropes wound about the barrels midriff (a parbuckle) to lower the barrel gently down the cellar's ramp. They then had to stand...
- col A, p. 13. "Cuban Naval Battles". Retrieved 19 October 2018. "Old Parbuckle Method Revived to Raise Philippine Navy Ship". Navy Times. 7 April 1965...
- people on board. Declared a constructive total loss, Costa Concordia was parbuckled upright on 17 September 2013. She was refloated on 14 July 2014, departing...