Parbuckle

[pɑ:bʌkl]

解释:

(n.) 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.

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

(v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

整理:塞丽娜

解释:

n. a purchase made by looping a rope in the middle to aid in rolling casks up or down an incline or in furling a sail by rolling the yards: a sling made by passing both ends of a rope through its bight.—v.t. to hoist or lower by a parbuckle:—pr.p. par′buckling; pa.p. par′buckled.

校对:韦恩