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English
Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Noun
parbunkel (plural parbunkels)
- Alternative form of parbuckle
- 1627, John Smith, A Sea-Grammar: With the Plaine Exposition of Smiths Accidence for young Sea-men, enlarged., page 21, in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and A Sea Grammar, volume 2, published 1907
- A Parbunkel is two ropes that have at each end a noose or lumpe that being crossed, you may set any vessell that hath but one head upon them, bringing but the loopes over the upper end of the caske, fix but the tackle to them, and then the vessell will stand strait in the middest to heave out, or take in without spilling.