P'ARCELING, participle present tense Dividing into portions.
P'ARCELING, noun Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, before it is sewed. It is used also to raise a mouse on the stays, etc.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.