The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Marshal \Mar"shal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marshaledor
Marshalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marshaling or Marshalling.]
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1. To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as,
to marshal troops or an army.
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And marshaling the heroes of his name
As, in their order, next to light they came.
--Dryden.
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2. To direct, guide, or lead.
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Thou marshalest me the way that I was going. --Shak.
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3. (Her.) To dispose in due order, as the different
quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when
several belong to an achievement.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
marshalling
(US -ll- or -l-) The process of packing one
or more items of data into a message buffer, prior to
transmitting that message buffer over a communication channel.
The packing process not only collects together values which
may be stored in non-consecutive memory locations but also
converts data of different types into a standard
representation agreed with the recipient of the message.
(2000-06-09)