Parcelling

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of the 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 stays, etc.

    "The wind continuing very light; all hands were sent aloft to strip off the chafing gear; and battens, parcellings, roundings, hoops, mats, and leathers, came flying from aloft, and left the rigging neat and clean, stripped of all its sea bandaging."

  2. 2
    the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan wordnet
  3. 3
    A system for dividing something up.

    "[…] these are posterior Divisions, fallen upon as Brandenburg (under Albert chiefly) enlarged itself, and needed new Official parcellings into departments."

  4. 4
    The division of land into parcels.

    "The parcelling of large estates into smaller agricultural units swelled the area of peasants' land by 1,759,000 acres."

  5. 5
    The manner in which something is structured or packaged for sale, including the use of a specific size, material, color, font, etc.

    "Most of the commodities have their own special parcellings, in the absence of which its market would be impeded and prices would have a tendency to become artificial."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of parcel British, form-of, gerund, participle, present

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