Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR'REL, n. [Port. aparelho, from aparelhar, to prepare; Sp. aparejo, tackle and rigging, from aparejar, to prepare, L. paro. It coincides with apparel, – which see.]

Among seamen, an apparatus or frame made of 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. – Encyc.