Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Parboil (v. t.) To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
(2) - Parboil (v. t.) To boil or cook thoroughly.

(1) - Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
(2) - Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
(3) - Parbuckle (n.) 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.

(1) - Parcel (a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
(2) - Parcel (v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
(3) - Parcel (v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
(4) - Parcel (v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
(5) - Parcel (n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
(6) - Parcel (n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
(7) - Parcel (n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
(8) - Parcel (n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

(1) - Parceling (n.) 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.
(2) - Parceling (n.) The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
(3) - Parceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parcel

(1) - Parcelling () of Parcel