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PARCELING
PARCELING, certain long narrow ships of canvas, daubed with tar, and frequently bound about a rope, in the same manner as bandages are applied to a broken limb in forgery.This is chiefly practised when the said rope is intended to be served, at which time the parceling is laid in spiral turns, as smoothly upon the surface as possible, that the rope may not become uneven and full of ridges. It is also employed to raise the mouses, which are formed on the stays and on the voyal being firmly fastened by marling it from one end to the other.
PARCELING a seam, is laying a spred of canvas upon it, and daubing it over with melted pitch, both above and below the canvas.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 211, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0930.html