fardel
nounEtymology
A clipped form of Middle English ferthendel (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”).
Definitions
A fourth part
A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
- I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.
An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a…
An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
- You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
- Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a Yard-land.
A bundle or burden.
- 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.
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To make up in fardels
To make up in fardels; to bunch.
- Here are foure vntruths fardelled vp together
The neighborhood
- synonymnookfourth of a yardland
- neighborfarthingdeal
- neighbora much smaller division of land making up 1⁄4 acre
- neighboroxgang (2 fardels & for larger divisions)fourth of a yardland
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA