Parceling

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Parcel.

II. Parceling ·noun The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

III. Parceling ·noun Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, ·etc.