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Cylindrical vs Parbuckle - What's the difference?

cylindrical | parbuckle |

As an adjective cylindrical

is shaped like a cylinder.

As a noun parbuckle is

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.

As a verb parbuckle is

to hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

cylindrical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shaped like a cylinder.

    • Derived terms

    * cylindrically

    parbuckle

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

    • Verb

    (parbuckl)
  • To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

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