farl

See also: phall

English

A soda bread farl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːl/

Etymology 1

Contraction of fardel.

Noun

farl (plural farls)

1. (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
2. Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.

See also

• soda bread
• potato bread

Etymology 2

Verb

farl (third-person singular simple present farls, present participle farling, simple past and past participle farled)

1. Obsolete form of furl.
   • 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, Act 1, Scene 1, First Beaumont and Fletcher folio, 1854, Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 2, page 416,

     Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull !

     Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “farl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• larf