Meanings (ES + gloss)
encomienda • paquete
A package wrapped for shipment.
At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and a…
I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
parcela
A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
hatajo
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
[…] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age [……
[…] this youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
embalar
To wrap something up into the form of a package.
parcelar
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by Europe…
Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.
Phrases