Parcelling

The wind continuing very light; all hands were sent aloft to strip off the chafing gear; and battens, parcellings, roundings, hoops, mats, and leathers, came flying from aloft, and left the rigging neat and clean, stripped of all its sea bandaging.

This effectively prepares the way for the parcelling to produce a smooth finish, prior to serving.

[…] these are posterior Divisions, fallen upon as Brandenburg (under Albert chiefly) enlarged itself, and needed new Official parcellings into departments.

That many different parcellings of phenomena for the purposes of theoretical explanation are conceivable does not however show that these parcellings can be quite arbitrary.

Spaces of the imagination rather than tidy parcellings.

The parcelling of large estates into smaller agricultural units swelled the area of peasants' land by 1,759,000 acres.

Another category of norms is valid for parcellings taking place after 2 December 1966 , but preceding the date ( 1 September 1967) when the Lege Ponte entered into force; while a third category of norms applies to parcellings carried out after 1 September 1967.

Near the coast, tidal creeks and high marshland formed a landscape with irregular parcellings.