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Definitions: PARBUCKLE |
PARBUCKLENoun1. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc. 2. 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. Transitive verb1. To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PARBUCKLE |
| English words defined with "PARBUCKLE": Parbuckled, Parbuckling. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "parbuckle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | arbucklepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | virador (hay maker, hay tedder, lifting arm lever, returning mechanism, tedder, tilter), escaldar (scald). (various references) | |
Romanian | parbuclã, ridica prin saule. (various references) | |
Spanish | tiravira. (various references) | |
Ukranian | пристасування для піднімання бочок, подвійний підйомний строп. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dây kéo thùng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PARBUCKLE": parbuckled, parbuckles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: blacker, bluecap, breakup, buckler, caulker, curable, plucker, puberal. | |
-3 letters: apercu, backer, backup, balker, bucker, buckle, buckra, burlap, calker, carpel, culpae, lacker, packer, parcel, placer, pleura, pucker, rackle, repack, rubace, ruckle, upbear. | |
-4 letters: abler, acerb, baker, baler, baulk, becap, black, blare, bleak, blear, bluer, brace, brake, break, burke, caber, cable, caper, carle, caulk, clear, clerk, crake, crape, creak, cruel, cuber, culpa, cupel, kebar, lacer, laker, lucre, pacer, paler, pareu, parle, pearl, place, plack, pluck, pucka, puler, recap, ruble, ulcer, ureal. | |
-5 letters: able, acre, alec, aper, back, bake, bale, balk, bare, bark, beak, bear, beau, beck, blae, blue, blur, brae, buck, bulk, bura, burl, burp, cake, calk, cape, carb, care, cark, carl, carp, caul, clap, club, clue, crab, crap, cube, cuke, curb, cure, curl, earl, ecru, kale, kbar, kelp, kerb, lace, lack, lake, lark, leak, leap, lear, leku, lube, luce, luck, lure, lurk, pace, pack, pale, pare, park, peak, peal, pear, peck, perk, plea, pleb, prau, puce, puck, puke, pula, pule, pure, purl, race, rack, rake, rale, rape, real, reap, reck, rube, ruck, rule, urea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: parbuckled, parbuckles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 52 42 55 43 4B 4C 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. -... ..- -.-. -.- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010010 01000010 01010101 01000011 01001011 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A R B U C K L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0052 0042 0055 0043 004B 004C 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)503552365537454639 |
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