PARCELLING. - A name given to long narrow slips of tarred canvas, and bound about a rope, in the manner of bandages, previous to its being sewed.
Parcel
See Package.
Part-Participant
Neither a CASS Airline nor a billing participant, which advices the Settlement Office of amounts due to it from agents.
parcel - Wraping tape (or other material) around a line (or wire) to prevent chafing.
PARCELING AND SERVING
This illustration shows the process of parceling and serving.
Parcel a Rope - To put a narrow piece of canvas around it after it has been wormed, and before it has been served.
Parcel a Seam - After a seam is caulked, to lay over it a narrow piece of canvas and then pour on hot pitch and tar .
Worm, parcel and serve: To protect a section of rope from chafing by: laying yarns (worming) to fill in the cuntlines, wrapping marline or other small stuff (serving) around it, and stitching a covering of canvas (parceling) over all.
SERVE To wrap any small stuff tightly around a rope which has been previously wormed and parcelled. Very small ropes are not wormed.
Parcel a rope: Is to put a narrow piece of canvass round it before the service is put on.
Pay out: To feed line over the side of the boat, hand over hand.
Peak: Outer end of the gaff -upper aft corner of a gaff sail.
Pennant: a triangular flag.
Used for transferring lines from one part of a chart to another parallels Lines of latitude going around the earth's surface parallel to the equator parcel To cover a line by winding it with strips of canvas in order to protect the line at ...
 See also: Point, Right, Port, Ship, Lines
  
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