What's the difference between hoist and parbuckle?
Hoist
Definition:
(v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
(n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
(n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.
(n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
(n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
(p. p.) Hoisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(2) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(3) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(4) A large toilet with a changing table and ceiling hoists are the answer to many disabled people’s prayers, however they are a rare sight.
(5) Finally, perhaps with a bit of hindsight, we can see this as JP Morgan being hoisted by its own petard; the complexity of the derivatives it was inventing and selling made them hard to value and rate for risk.
(6) Drogba, his game hoisted for the big occasion, is untouchable.
(7) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(8) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(9) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
(10) A few cells are adapted to accommodate hoists, hospital beds, and specialist mattresses.
(11) Down by a goal with less than 15 minutes to play, and struggling just to keep their footing on a frozen field, they might easily have hoisted the white flag.
(12) A mobile calf enclosure was developed which incorporated a hydraulic hoist and sling for the care of calves.
(13) • Pro-Russia demonstrators surrounded government buildings in at least three Ukrainian cities, hoisting Russian flags and chanting against the government in Kiev.
(14) These patient handling tasks were studied using five manual techniques and three hoist-assisted techniques.
(15) At night, if you are quiet, you can hear them whirring from the Hills Hoist.
(16) Eddie Howe Bournemouth manager Considered one of the brightest managerial prospects in English football on the back of his success with Bournemouth, whom he has helped hoist from bottom tier to Premier League over two spells, enduring a trickier period at Burnley in between, and ensuring the Cherries’ top-flight status last term was a fine achievement.
(17) It says something about the difficulties of the old library that a special hoist had to be built to help get nearly a million books out and into the new building "There is one creaky old books lift, but we really feared it wasn't up to the job," Gambles said.
(18) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(19) She boldly says she is not in school because the teachers gave them a day off to do marking and hoists 10 litres of water onto her head, holding a second 5-litre jerry can in her hand, before setting off on the 3km walk home.
(20) A Russian flag was hoisted at the site, where previously there had been clashes between pro- and anti-Russian protesters, as well as a sign saying “Crimea is Russia”.
Parbuckle
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
(v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Example Sentences:
(1) 11.54am BST Lizzy Davies has sent me this brief rundown from the briefing by the salvage engineers: • Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding "exactly according to predictions".
(2) Parbuckling is a common method but has never been used on a ship so big.
(3) Their recovery was a priority of the parbuckling but engineers have not yet seen any sign of their remains in the wreck.
(4) Parbuckling is a common means of salvaging wrecked vessels, but it has never been used on one of the Concordia's size – the cruise ship is 290 metres (950ft) long – let alone one balancing precariously on two rock pinnacles on a steep slope.
(5) In a statement on Sunday, the Italian civil protection agency gave the final go-ahead for the parbuckling, saying wind and sea conditions had fallen "within the range of operating feasibility".
(6) The parbuckling is the most important stage so far in the long and much-delayed salvage operation, the cost of which is now estimated at over €600m- a figure which may well increase.
(7) The plan is to level the ship using a salvage method known as parbuckling, in which dozens of crank-like pulleys use chains looped round the hull to slowly rotating the ship, with water-filled tanks pulling down the exposed side through gravity.
(8) Exhausted but relieved, the engineers in charge of the marathon parbuckling of the Costa Concordia said they had "kept [their] promise" of a safe and successful operation, hours after bringing the wrecked cruise ship upright for the first time since its catastrophic crash against the rocks of Giglio island last year.
(9) But he cautioned: “You will have to wait some time before you can see some change with the naked eye.” The Italian civil protection agency gave the final go-ahead for the parbuckling on Sunday, saying wind and sea conditions had fallen “within the range of operating feasibility”.
(10) Twenty months after the 114,000-tonne vessel crashed into rocks off the coast of Giglio island, causing the deaths of 32 people, engineers will begin an ambitious process of "parbuckling" that they hope will result in it being brought to rest securely on underwater platforms.
(11) After months of preparation, 15,000 individual dives, the use of over 30,000 tons of steel, 22 vessels and eight barges, the day had finally come to parbuckle the Costa Concordia .
(12) Here's an excerpt: At a 4am press briefing in Giglio, with the re-emerged hull looming large over the port, Italy's civil protection agency chief, Franco Gabrielli, was applauded by firefighters as he announced that the ship's rotation had reached 65 degrees, meaning the operation known as parbuckling was finally complete.
(13) Begun at 9am on Monday with a delay due to a fierce overnight storm over the Tuscan island, the parbuckling rotated the 114,000-tonne ship by 65 degrees to bring it fully vertical.
(14) This was "an important milestone", he said, as from now on the parbuckling would continue helped by the entrance of sea water into the sponsons which would help push the ship downward and onto to the underwater platforms.
(15) "Large deformations" had been observed on the starboard side, said Girotto, but for the moment, the parbuckling was succeeding.
(16) 12.06pm BST In the comments, a reader notes that as well as the parbuckling of the USS Oklahoma (see 9.25 BST ) the French liner the SS Normandie, marginally longer than the Costa Concordia at 299 metres, was righted in New York harbour in 1943, a year after it capsized following a fire.
(17) Lizzy writes: So, two hours later than originally thought, we're waiting for the parbuckling of the Costa Concordia to begin.
(18) Elio Vincenzi, from Priolo Gargallo in Sicily, said he was desperately hoping the parbuckling would finally enable divers to locate the body of his wife, Maria Grazia Trecarichi, who had been on the cruise with her daughter, Stefania, for her 50th birthday.
(19) The parbuckling revealed a large amount of damage to the part of the ship that had been submerged.
(20) Five TV cameras with five microphones have been placed on the highest deck of the Concordia; the images and sounds monitored during the parbuckling will allow the engineers to make adjustments depending on any twist and torsion arising on the ship.