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Etymology 1[edit]
A clipped form of Middle English ferthe del (literally “fourth part”), equivalent to fourth + deal. Cognate with Dutch vierendeel (“a fourth part, quarter”), German Viertel (“a quarter, fourth”), Danish fjerdedel (“a quarter”), Swedish fjärdedel (“a fourth, quarter”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
fardel (plural fardels)
- A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
- c. 1666, W. Sutherland in R. Wodrow's The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, volume I, Appendix: page 101:
- I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.
- c. 1666, W. Sutherland in R. Wodrow's The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, volume I, Appendix: page 101:
- (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (fourth of anything): See third (4/3 of a quarter & for smaller subdivisions)
- (fourth of a yardland): See oxgang (2 fardels & for larger divisions)
- (fourth of an oxgang): See nook (2 fardels & for larger divisions)
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- (fourth of anything): See fifth (4/5 of a quarter & for smaller subdivisions)
- (unit of land area): See acre (Various & for small subdivisions)
Related terms[edit]
- farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up ¼ acre
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English fardel, from Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”), from Arabic فَرْدَة (farda, “cloth, woman's clothes”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
fardel (plural fardels)
- (obsolete) a bundle or burden
- 1597–1598, T[homas] M[iddleton], “Satyre 2. Prodigall Zodon.”, in Micro-cynicon: Sixe Snarling Satyres. […], imprinted at London: By Thomas Creede, for Thomas Bushell, […], published 1599, OCLC 837469775; republished as [Edward Vernon Utterson], editor, Micro-cynicon: Sixe Snarling Satyres, [Ryde, Isle of Wight?]: Reprinted at the Beldornie Press, by G. E. Palmer, for Edwd. V. Utterson, 1842, OCLC 1008051468:
- Hees forc't to trot with fardle at his backe, / From houſe to houſe, demaunding if they lacke / A poore yong man that's willing to take paine, / And mickle labour, though for little gaine.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 3, Scene 1, 1843, J. Payne Collier (editor), The Works of William Shakespeare, page 261,
- Who would fardels bear
- to grunt and sweat under a weary life […]
- 1855 [1606], Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (editor), The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, page 13 (of Appendix),
- It doth also appear by the abbreviate of the accounts sent home out of the Indies, that there remained in the hands of the agent, master Starlcey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels of of long malow girdles, […] .
- 1954 Anya Seyton Katherine
"God in his mercy be thanked" said Katherine. "My dear Lord is then truly and honestly rid of his fardel."
Verb[edit]
fardel (third-person singular simple present fardels, present participle fardelling, simple past and past participle fardelled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
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