Parbuckle

After refitting, we went for a cruise to the East Indies, where we found the new admiral who had come out to replace Admiral Hope; and, in the spring of the following year, having served for eighteen months as a naval cadet, I was promoted to the rank of midshipman, the captain and first lieutenant, having convinced themselves of my competency by asking me how I would manage to get a six-pounder to the top of a perpendicular hill, my answer to which question was that I would head it up in a cask and "parbuckle" it up. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)

"parbuckle" on board her spars lying alongside her in the stream, fit her rigging, bend her sails, stow her hold, and present her all a-taunt-o to the men who were to sail her. ❋ Unknown (1877)

When the tree was cut off he hauled it to the surface with a long parbuckle chain to which Babe, mounted on snowshoes, was hitched. ❋ W.B. Laughead (N/A)

They'd left some gear behind them, but we were most of two days cutting and heaving the beast out with a parbuckle under him. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

Then, having got the first gun on deck -- already prepared in Port Royal dockyard, by being encased in a stout cylindrical packing of planks -- we passed the bights of our two hawsers round it, one at each end, and with all hands tailing on -- except one, whom we set to watch as a sentinel -- proceeded to parbuckle it up the face of the cliff. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

This gave me a good deal of trouble, for I wanted the spar on deck, not overboard; so I had to go to work to parbuckle it up the side, which I managed pretty well by watching the lift of the seas. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

This formed a parbuckle, and when the men hauled upon the upper lengths of the ropes the cask easily rolled up to the ends of the lower lengths. ❋ Unknown (1867)

"We must pass straps round this, and parbuckle him up," he observed. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

'I've been looking at your men handling that gun, and my opinion is, that if you gets a butt, crams in a carronade, well woulded up, and fill it with old junk and rope yarns, you might parbuckle it up to the very top.' ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

` I've been looking at your men handling that gun, and my opinion is, that if you gets a butt, crams in a carronade, well woulded up, and fill it with old junk and rope yarns, you might parbuckle it up to the very top. ' ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Newton hove to, tossed out the little skiff, and in the course of an hour, unknown to his captain, who was in bed sleeping off the effect of his last potations, brought alongside, and contrived to parbuckle in, the casks, and as many others of the floating articles as he could conveniently stow upon her decks. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

"It's true enough, Mick, that one of our officers did manage to parbuckle a gun up to the top of a high rock, or, rather, mountain, which commanded the land defences of Castries, the principal town of Saint Lucia in the West ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)