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Parbuckle
- - 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. (b) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Pardalote
- unknown - Small Australian bird. 'Diamond' bird.
Parentage
- noun - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
- the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man"
Parfleche
- - A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.
Pargasite
- - A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.
Parietine
- - A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
Parkesine
- - A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.