OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 12011

parcel

[ˈpʰɑː.səɫ]
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