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ˈparcelling, ˈparceling, vbl. n.
Also 7–8 (in sense 4) parsling.
[f. parcel v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb parcel, or its result, etc.
†1. A part, portion. Obs. rare.
c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xviii. 400 Tithis and offringis and suche othere smale parcellingis of paymentis.
2. Division into parcels or portions; partition.
1584–5[see parcel v. 1]. 1803J. Porter Thaddeus (1826) l. xi. 236 He did not observe the parcelling out of his temperate meal; one bringing in the fowl, another the bread. 1834Sir W. Napier Penins. War xiv. viii, The parcelling of an army before a concentrated enemy. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxix, An ingenuity of device fitting them to make a figure in the parcelling of Europe.
3. The action of putting up in a parcel or parcels.
1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. vi. 31 The buying and selling and crowding and parceling and callings of ‘Cash!’
4. Naut.
a. The putting of a canvas strip over a caulked seam, bolt, etc., and covering it with hot pitch; also, the wrapping of a rope round with canvas strips.
1627[see parcel v. 3]. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. xi. §4. 283 Parsling. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 25 The parcelling, or laying with Tarr and Hair all the Iron⁓work under water. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 28 To begin serving, you should begin where you leave off parcelling.
b. concr. A strip of canvas (usually tarred) for binding round a rope, in order to give a smooth surface and keep the interstices water-tight.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776), Parcelling, certain long narrow slips of canvas, daubed with tar, and frequently bound about a rope. 1879N. H. Bishop 4 Months in Sneak-Box (1880) 13 There were piles of old rigging, iron bolts and rings, tarred parcelling.
5. attrib., as parcelling machine, (a) a machine for making up parcels of yarn, cloth, etc.; (b) a machine for making parcelling (4 b).
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1632/2. |