to parbuckle

9.9

To roll a heavy thing like a ship to an upright position using ropes or cables

verb
/ˈpɑːrbʌkəl/

Specialized

: parbucklear

The crew worked together, parbuckling the stranded vessel back to an upright position.

Examples

Engineers used strong cables for parbuckling the massive shipwreck during the salvage operation.
The crew parbuckled the vessel after the storm.
After hours of effort, the team succeeded in parbuckling the heavy container off the dock.
They will parbuckle the boat to lift it safely.
The crew worked together, parbuckling the stranded vessel back to an upright position.
Engineers used strong cables for parbuckling the massive shipwreck during the salvage operation.
After hours of effort, the team succeeded in parbuckling the heavy container to right it on the dock.

Antonyms

to sink

77 2.5

To make something go below the surface of water and become submerged

Surface Forms

parbuckle infinitive

parbuckled past

parbuckled past participle

parbuckling present participle

parbuckles third person singular

Morphology

parbuckle = buckle (opaque) = par + buckle

Although analyzable as par- + buckle, the prefix 'par-' is not a productive, transparent modifier for learners and the specialized nautical meaning is not predictable from 'buckle' alone.

Etymology

Parbuckle comes from old parts that mean something like par- 'around' and the familiar word buckle 'strap'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a strap pulled around a boat to roll it back upright, which is exactly what parbuckle means today: to roll or right a heavy object using ropes or cables.