parcel
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noun
1. a thing or collection of things wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by mail.
｟主に英｠ 小包, 郵便小包(｟米｠ package), 小荷物
2. a quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction:
｟主に英｠ 【物･人の】一群, ひとまとまり; かなりの量 «of»
e.g. a parcel of shares.
a piece of land, especially one considered as part of an estate.
(土地の)1区画
technical a portion of a larger body of air or other fluid considered as a discrete element:
e.g. an inversion forms a barrier to a rising parcel of air.
verb (parcels, parceling, parceled; British parcelling, parcelled) with object
make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it:
｟英｠ …を荷造りする, 小包にする(up).
e.g. he parceled up his only winter suit to take to the pawnbroker.
(parcel something out) divide into portions and then distribute:
…を分け合う, 分配する(out)
e.g. they will start parceling out radio frequencies for digital cordless telephones.
Nautical wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing.
PHRASES
pass the parcel
a children's game in which a parcel is passed around to the accompaniment of music, the child holding the parcel when the music stops being allowed to unwrap a layer.
be part and parcel of
see part.
ORIGIN
late Middle English (chiefly in the sense ‘small portion’): from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula ‘small part’.