The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
2.
(Naut.) 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.
verb
Parcel v. t. (past & past part. parceled or parcelled; pres. part. parceling or parcelling)
1.
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general.""These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.""The broad woodland parceled into farms."
2.
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. (R.) "That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy."
3.
To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it.
To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.
... was enacted in France "providing for the acquisition of small rural properties by soldier and civilian victims of the war. It provides in part for 'individual mortgage loans to facilitate acquisition, parceling out, transformation, and reconstitution of small rural properties of which the value does not exceed 10,000 francs.' The loans are to be made from the agricultural lending societies at a rate of 1 per cent, with a term of twenty-five years. Advances for improvements are provided ... — A Stake in the Land • Peter Alexander Speek
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