fardel
English
Etymology 1
A clipped form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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”).
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Noun
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
- (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
Hyponyms
- (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
- farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up ¼ acre
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fardel, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic فَرْدَة (farda, “cloth, woman's clothes”).
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Noun
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; 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:
- 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 Starkey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels 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
fardel (third-person singular simple present fardell, present participle ing, simple past and past participle fardeled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels.
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