parceling
Americannoun
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the act of separating or dividing into parts and distributing; allotting or apportioning.
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Nautical. strips of canvas, usually coated with tar, for wrapping around a rope to protect it.
Other Word Forms
- unparceling adjective
- unparcelling adjective
Etymology
Origin of parceling
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; parcel, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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In the run-up to “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio played the traditional role of the elusive movie star, parceling out access and promotional appearances.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
California became an agricultural powerhouse by taming its rivers and parceling out their flows.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
Inside the Weggs’ yellow colonial, on five acres north of Indianapolis, Rodney had been parceling out limited information.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2021
“Such a delicate ecosystem, so precisely calibrated, in the end destroyed by Jude’s careful parceling of love, of land. Greed, the university’s gobble. Those scaled creatures, killed,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018
"I'm thinking of parceling off portions of my brain," I once told her.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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