The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
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(Naut.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.
verb
Parcel v. t. (past & past part. parceled or parcelled; pres. part. parceling or parcelling)
1.
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general.""These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.""The broad woodland parceled into farms."
2.
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. (R.) "That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy."
3.
To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it.
To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.
... Carolina to take care of themselves; who are even now debating at Washington whether they shall not order new elections in those States, or which of two State governments they shall put up and which put down, and who since the war have treated the South as if no States were there, parceling it into military districts, and denying recognition until constitutional amendments were ratified. Their assertion of the conclusiveness of false and fraudulent canvassers' certificates, on the pretense of ... — The Vote That Made the President • David Dudley Field
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