Etymology

parbuckle

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Today it means: A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out. Full definition →

French boucle
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The story

  1. French · derived fromboucle“loop”
  2. English todayparbuckle

Earliest forms are parbuncle, parbunkel and parbunkle. Of unknown earlier origin. Influenced by buckle and French boucle (“loop”)

Words from the same roots

Frenchboucle all →

bouclé

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.