parcelling

verb

1. (British, form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of parcel

noun

1. One of the 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 stays, etc.

   “The wind continuing very light; all hands were sent aloft to strip off the chafing gear; and battens, parcellings, roundings, hoops, mats, and leathers, came flying from aloft, and left the rigging neat and clean, stripped of all its sea bandaging.”

   “This effectively prepares the way for the parcelling to produce a smooth finish, prior to serving.”

2. A system for dividing something up.

   “[…] these are posterior Divisions, fallen upon as Brandenburg (under Albert chiefly) enlarged itself, and needed new Official parcellings into departments.”

   “That many different parcellings of phenomena for the purposes of theoretical explanation are conceivable does not however show that these parcellings can be quite arbitrary.”

   “Spaces of the imagination rather than tidy parcellings.”

3. The division of land into parcels.

   “The parcelling of large estates into smaller agricultural units swelled the area of peasants' land by 1,759,000 acres.”

   “Another category of norms is valid for parcellings taking place after 2 December 1966 , but preceding the date ( 1 September 1967) when the Lege Ponte entered into force; while a third category of norms applies to parcellings carried out after 1 September 1967.”

   “Near the coast, tidal creeks and high marshland formed a landscape with irregular parcellings.”

4. The manner in which something is structured or packaged for sale, including the use of a specific size, material, color, font, etc.

   “Most of the commodities have their own special parcellings, in the absence of which its market would be impeded and prices would have a tendency to become artificial.”

   “They may have special shades of paper stamps or "chops," tickets, tapes, ribbons, and parcellings.”

   “The smallest number of parcellings are found in the group of small volume texts—in 1.5% of cases. In advertising of medium volume, parcellings are used in 14% of texts.”