Citations:fard

English citations of fard

fard (plural fards)

[A cloth measure used in India.]
- 1880, William Hoey, A Monograph on Trade and Manufactures in Northern India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India: American Methodist Mission Press, →OCLC, page 84; reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, →ISBN, page 84:
  Wholesale cloth-merchants supply chhípís with nainsukh which is stamped and returned by them; but the proprietors of large factories purchase webs themselves and stamp them and supply goods wholesale to bazzazes. The process is oiling (tél chalána). This is performed by dhobis. The web is 20 yards long and is cut into four pieces (fard). […] After a time more manjíth is thrown in and finally the fards are taken out, wrung out, and dried.
[A unit of weight used in Egypt?]
- 1877, J[ames] C[arlile] McCoan, “Commerce”, in Egypt as It Is, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 166:
  Of the whole, 94,488 fards of Coffee were re-exported from Alexandria during the decennial period under notice, with a marked annual decline, however, since 1871, when the quantity was 13,428 fards against only 3,763 in 1875.

fard (third-person singular simple present fards, present participle farding, simple past and past participle farded)

[Definition required.]
- 1572 April 22, James Anthony Froude, quoting Thomas Smith, “The Duke of Norfolk”, in History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, volume X (Elizabeth), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1870, →OCLC, page 77:
  If her Majesty deceive herself, and with irresolution make all princes to understand that there is no certainty in her Majesty nor her council, but dalliance and farding off of time, her Majesty shall first discredit her ministers, which is not much, but next and by them discredit herself, to be counted as uncertain, irresolute, unconstant, and for no prince to trust unto—but as to a courtier who hath words at will and true deeds none.