An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
To wrap something up into the form of a package.
To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
Part or half; in part; partially.
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]
From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“par...
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To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.