Parcel

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  • noun. Something wrapped up or packaged; a package.
  • noun. A plot of land, usually a division of a larger area.
  • noun. A quantity of merchandise offered for sale.
  • noun. A group or company; a pack.
  • transitive verb. To divide into parts and distribute.
  • transitive verb. To make into a parcel; package.
  • transitive verb. To wind protective strips of canvas around (rope).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To divide into parts or portions: generally with out.
  • To particularize; specify.
  • To cover with strips of canvas; wrap with parceling.
  • Partly; in part; partially; to some extent.
  • noun. A part, either taken separately or belonging to a whole.
  • noun. A separable, separate, or distinct part or portion or section, as of land.
  • noun. A constituent or integral part: used frequently in the phrase part and parcel.
  • noun. A fragment; piece; bit.
  • noun. An item or particular; a detail.
  • noun. An indefinite number, quantity, or measure forming a group, mass, or lot: as, a parcel of fools; a parcel of rubbish.
  • noun. A number of things wrapped or otherwise put up together; a package, containing a number of articles or a single one; a small bundle.
  • noun. plural In law, that part of a deed or conveyance which describes the property conveyed, together with the boundaries thereof, in order to its easy identification.
  • noun. Same as parceling, 1.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Part or half; in part; partially.
  • a half poet; a poor poet.
  • transitive verb. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
  • transitive verb. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
  • transitive verb. To make up into a parcel
  • transitive verb. to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it.
  • transitive verb. to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.
  • noun. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
  • noun. A part; a portion; a piece.
  • noun. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  • noun. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
  • noun. See under 6th Bill.
  • noun. an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.
  • noun. that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment. See parcel post in the vocabulary.
  • noun. See under Part.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A package wrapped for shipment.
  • noun. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  • noun. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
  • noun. A group of birds.
  • noun. A group of people.
  • noun. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  • verb. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  • verb. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an extended area of land
  • verb. cover with strips of canvas
  • noun. the allotment of some amount by dividing something
  • noun. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
  • noun. a wrapped container
  • verb. make into a wrapped container
  • verb. divide into parts
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    "Pass the parcel is a good way of getting them all to sit down for a bit …"
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