parcel
/ˈpɑɹsəl/ noun B1- A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport. · I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit. · I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. · A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Plural parcels
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Carrying parcels with their feet
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.
At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready.
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