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		ThrustVectoring on March 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could ... It's a somewhat older word that basically means "to gather" or "to collect". A good surviving use of it is in a "marshalling yard", where a series of railway switches get used to sort and organize freight trains.

selimthegrim on March 5, 2017 [–]

Or indeed, in programming too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science)

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