Vocabulary : Parboiled to Parcel post

Parboiled : of Parboil
Parboiling : of Parboil
Parbreak : To throw out; to vomit. ;; Vomit.
Parbuckle : A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out. ;; A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc. ;; To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Parbuckled : of Parbuckle

Parbuckling : of Parbuckle
Parcae : The Fates. See Fate, 4.
Parcase : Perchance; by chance.
Parcel : A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. ;; A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. ;; An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. ;; A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. ;; To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into. ;; To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. ;; To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. ;; Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
Parcel post : That branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d. for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds. A general parcel post was established in the United States by Act of August 24, 1912, which took effect Jan. 1, 1913. Parcels must not exceed 11 pounds in weight nor 72 inches in length and girth combined. Provision is made from insuring parcels up to $50.00, and also for sending parcels C.O.D. The rates of postage vary with the distance. See Zone, below.

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