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Parceling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, before it is sewed. It is used also to raise a mouse on the stays, etc.

Parceling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dividing into portions.

Parceling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

2. 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.

Parceling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Parcel