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1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ix. 41. For more haste unparrell the mizen yard and lanch it and the saile ouer her Lee quarter.
[1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. x. We … for more haste unparrell’d the Misen yard, and lanch’d it and the Sail over her Lee-quarter.]
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Unparrel a Yard, (in Sea-Language) is to take off the Frames call’d Parrels, that go round about the Masts.
