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fardels

fardels is the plural of fardel.

Meaning of fardel

Noun (1)

fardel (plural fardels)

  1. A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    quarter
  2. (historical) 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.a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, section 57

Noun (2)

fardel (plural fardels)

  1. (obsolete) 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.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...

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Questions about fardels

What is fardels the plural of?
Fardels is the plural of fardel.

Words near fardels in the dictionary

  1. farded
  2. fardel
  3. fardel-bound
  4. fardelled
  5. fardelling
  6. fardels
  7. farden
  8. fardens
  9. fardh
  10. fardhs
  11. Fardian

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