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parbuckle
noun(par-buck-le)
an arrangement of rope for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical object by making fast the middle of the rope aloft and looping both ends around the object which rests in the loops and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or paid out; also : a single line made fast at one end and passed around an object that is used similarly

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