parcel
/ˈpɑɹsəl/ verb C2- 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.
- To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
- To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
He/she/it parcels · Past parceled · Past participle parceled · -ing form parceling
Verb forms
- Base form
- parcel
- He/she/it
- parcels
- Past
- parceled
- Past participle
- parceled
- -ing form
- parceling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He had just got home from a trip to the store at Carmody, and he sheepishly produced a small parcel from his pocket and handed it to Anne, with a deprecatory look at Marilla.
But the next morning a note most fearfully and wonderfully twisted and folded, and a small parcel were passed across to Anne.
If we were not forced to entertain a parcel of country boobies because they think and vote with us, we should never dream of dining at home, I assure you.”
Then, instead of plunging into the mass of documents piled before him, he opened the drawer of his desk, touched a spring, and drew out a parcel of cherished memoranda, amongst which he had carefully arranged, in characters only known to himself, the names of all those who, either in his political career, in money matters, at the bar, or in his mysterious love affairs, had become his enemies.
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