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11 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
This effectively prepares the way for the parcelling to produce a smooth finish, prior to serving.
Source: wiktionary
[…] these are posterior Divisions, fallen upon as Brandenburg (under Albert chiefly) enlarged itself, and needed new Official parcellings into departments.
Source: wiktionary
That many different parcellings of phenomena for the purposes of theoretical explanation are conceivable does not however show that these parcellings can be quite arbitrary.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include parceling, allocate, allocation, allot, allotment.
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