How do you use a parbuckle to come alongside

[sarabande]

What is the point in being heirs to five thousand years of language development, to throw it away by lack of accuracy.

 

[Little Rascal]

Parbuckling is to do with lifting barrels and spars by passing a line underneath and returning it to the hands of Jolly Jack, who is then told "Two, Six, Heave !"

That's what I thought it meant too...

As in the context of loading a cargo (barrels in particular) or getting a spar out of the water...

"A sling for a log, barrel, etc., made by passing a doubled rope around the object and pulling the rope ends through the loop."


Maybe not strictly accurate term for what's going in the video, but whatever you call it, that's what the OP was asking about....