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Parrel

PAR'REL, n. [L. paro. It coincides with apparel, which see.] Among seamen, an apparatus or frame made or ropes, trucks and ribs, so contrived as to go round the mast, and being fastened at both ends to a yard,...

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PAR'REL, n. [L. paro. It coincides with apparel, which see.]

Among seamen, an apparatus or frame made or ropes, trucks and ribs, so contrived as to go round the mast, and being fastened at both ends to a yard, serves to hoist it.

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