Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
doublespeaks
hukbalahap
packbuilder
palebuck
parbuckle
parbuckle
noun
A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
verb
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
parbuckled
parbuckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parbuckle
parbuckling
parbuckling
verb
present participle of parbuckle
pickelhaube
pickelhaube
noun
(historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.
plankbuilt
puckball
puckball
noun
(obsolete) A puffball fungus.
pullback
pullback
noun
(architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
(category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
(category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
(differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
(finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
(historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
pullbacks
pullbacks
noun
plural of pullback
subclerkship
subclerkship
noun
The state or business of a subclerk.
superblock
superblock
noun
(architecture, urban planning) A very large block of buildings.
(computing) A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.