Parrel
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Among seamen, an apparatus or frame made or ropes, trucks and ribs, so
contrived as to go round the mast, and being fastened at both ends to a yard, serves to
hoist it.
Parrel
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. The rope or
collar by which a yard or
spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be
hoisted or lowered at pleasure.