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Parceling   Listen
noun
Parceling  n.  
1.
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.





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"Parceling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Carolina to take care of themselves; who are even now debating at Washington whether they shall not order new elections in those States, or which of two State governments they shall put up and which put down, and who since the war have treated the South as if no States were there, parceling it into military districts, and denying recognition until constitutional amendments were ratified. Their assertion of the conclusiveness of false and fraudulent canvassers' certificates, on the pretense of ...
— The Vote That Made the President • David Dudley Field


Words linked to "Parceling" :   allotment, parcelling, share, parcel, subsidisation, reapportionment, deal, reallocation, reallotment


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