parcelling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Usage
- British usage