Noun: fardel
| Singular | fardel |
| Plural | fardels |
Sample Sentences
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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]
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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:]
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Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a Yard-land. [1706, Phillips's New World of Words:]
Nouns inflected like fardel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
ferthendel', German Nouns '
Viertel', Danish Nouns '
fjerdedel', Swedish Nouns '
fjärdedel'.