part off

present singular third person parts off · participle present parting off · participle past parted off · past parted off

1. To divide into a separate section or sections; to partition.

   On one side of the room he has his bench or worktable, and round the walls there are cages, parted off by partitions into, smaller compartments of about three feet square.

   1908 December 26, The Saturday Observer, Brisbane, page 20, column 2

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   The houses are of various sizes, but are all built after one pattern, being merely large thatched sheds, a small portion of which, next the entrance, is used as a dwelling, while the rest is parted off; and often divided by one or two floors, in order better to stow away merchandise and native produce.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 197