fardel

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɑː(ɹ)dəl/ === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Alternative forms ==== farthel, farl ==== 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. (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. ===== Synonyms ===== (fourth of anything): See quarter (fourth of a yardland): See nook ===== Hypernyms ===== (fourth of anything): See third (1+1⁄3 quarters & 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) ===== Hyponyms ===== (fourth of anything): See fifth (4⁄5 of a quarter & for smaller subdivisions) (unit of land area): See acre (Various & for small subdivisions) ===== Derived terms ===== fardel-bound ===== Related terms ===== farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up 1⁄4 acre === Etymology 2 === From Middle English fardel, from Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”), from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “one of a pair”), as applied to saddlebags. ==== Alternative forms ==== fardle farthel ==== Noun ==== fardel (plural fardels) (obsolete) A bundle or burden. 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, […]. ==== Verb ==== fardel (third-person singular simple present fardels, present participle (US) fardeling or (UK) fardelling, simple past and past participle (US) fardeled or (UK) fardelled) (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels; to bunch. === Anagrams === Alfred, Falder, fardle, farled, flared, larfed == Basque == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish fardel. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fardel/ [far.ð̞el] Rhymes: -ardel, -el Hyphenation: far‧del === Noun === fardel inan bundle, package Synonyms: barren, barru ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “fardel”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language] “fardel”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005 == Middle English == === Alternative forms === fardell, fardill, ffardell === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfardɛl/ === Noun === fardel (plural fardeles) pack, bundle ==== Descendants ==== English: fardel Yola: fardele ==== References ==== “fardel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.