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Definition of Parrel
1. Noun. (nautical) A sliding loop of rope or metal, around the mast of a ship, to which a yard or gaff is fitted ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parrel
1. a sliding loop of rope or chain used on a ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parrel
Literary usage of Parrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c by Francis Liardet (1849)
"... during the watch, if possible. parrel, or parrel-lashing, of top-gallant yard
carried away. When the parrel or parrel-lashing of a top-gallant yard is ..."
2. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"When a weather brace carries away, there being no preventer, the yard immediately
becomes a lever; the stay, or parrel, or truss, being the fulcrum; ..."
3. Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations by Jacob W. Shoemaker, R. W. Shoemaker, C. C. Shoemaker (1911)
"... reach up dill I vent and get a parrel do stant on; veil, ... I didn't tink I
kood go insite a parrel before, put dere I vos, und I fit so dite dot I ..."
4. History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1901)
"... and parrel, the bridges over which rivers were entirely in Goring's hands.
On the 5th, as he was pushing through Crewkerne, he first came in contact ..."
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