"fardel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)dəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fardel.wav Forms: fardels [plural]
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”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|ferthendel|lit=fourth part}} Middle English ferthendel (literally “fourth part”), {{compound|en|fourth|deal|nocat=1}} fourth + deal, {{cog|nl|vierendeel||a fourth part, quarter}} Dutch vierendeel (“a fourth part, quarter”), {{cog|de|Viertel||a quarter, fourth}} German Viertel (“a quarter, fourth”), {{cog|da|fjerdedel||a quarter}} Danish fjerdedel (“a quarter”), {{cog|sv|fjärdedel||a fourth, quarter}} Swedish fjärdedel (“a fourth, quarter”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} fardel (plural fardels)
  1. A fourth part: a quarter of anything. Categories (topical): Four Synonyms (fourth of anything): quarter Hypernyms (fourth of anything): third (1+1⁄3 quarters & for smaller subdivisions) Hyponyms (fourth of anything): fifth (4⁄5 of a quarter & for smaller subdivisions)
    Sense id: en-fardel-en-noun-bwrCm3dg Disambiguation of Four: 44 30 2 24 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 38 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 36 30 2 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 26 1 31 Disambiguation of 'fourth of anything': 56 44 Disambiguation of 'fourth of anything': 57 43 Disambiguation of 'fourth of anything': 57 43
  2. (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. Tags: historical Hypernyms (fourth of an oxgang): nook (2 fardels & for larger divisions) Hyponyms (unit of land area): acre (english: Various & for small subdivisions)
    Sense id: en-fardel-en-noun-dYC8GM0H Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 38 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 36 30 2 31 Disambiguation of 'fourth of an oxgang': 40 60 Disambiguation of 'unit of land area': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: farthel, farl Synonyms (fourth of a yardland): nook Hypernyms (fourth of a yardland): oxgang (2 fardels & for larger divisions) Derived forms: fardel-bound Related terms: farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up 1⁄4 acre
Etymology number: 1 Disambiguation of 'fourth of a yardland': 48 52 Disambiguation of 'fourth of a yardland': 48 52

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)dəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fardel.wav Forms: fardels [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fardel}} Middle English fardel, {{der|en|fro|fardel||pack, bundle}} Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), {{der|en|es|fardel}} Spanish fardel, {{der|en|ar|فَرْد||one of a pair}} Arabic فَرْد (fard, “one of a pair”), {{root|en|ar|ف ر د}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} fardel (plural fardels)
  1. (obsolete) A bundle or burden. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-fardel-en-noun-csPCdNXg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: farthel, fardle
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)dəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fardel.wav Forms: fardels [present, singular, third-person], fardelling [participle, present], fardeling [participle, present], fardelled [participle, past], fardelled [past], fardeled [participle, past], fardeled [past]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fardel}} Middle English fardel, {{der|en|fro|fardel||pack, bundle}} Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), {{der|en|es|fardel}} Spanish fardel, {{der|en|ar|فَرْد||one of a pair}} Arabic فَرْد (fard, “one of a pair”), {{root|en|ar|ف ر د}} Head templates: {{en-verb|++|past2=+|pres_ptc2=+}} fardel (third-person singular simple present fardels, present participle fardelling or fardeling, simple past and past participle fardelled or fardeled)
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels; to bunch. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-fardel-en-verb-6J~MV~en Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 38 1 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 36 30 2 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: farthel, fardle
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "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; republished as [Edward Vernon Utterson], editor, Micro-cynicon: Sixe Snarling Satyres, [Ryde, Isle of Wight?]: Reprinted at the Beldornie Press, by G. E. Palmer, for Edwd. V. Utterson, 1842, →OCLC:",
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          "ref": "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; republished as [Edward Vernon Utterson], editor, Micro-cynicon: Sixe Snarling Satyres, [Ryde, Isle of Wight?]: Reprinted at the Beldornie Press, by G. E. Palmer, for Edwd. V. Utterson, 1842, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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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          "text": "[W]ho would fardels beare / To grunt and ſweat vnder a wearie life, / But that the dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, / And makes vs rather beare thoſe ills we haue, / Then flie to others that we know not of.",
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          "ref": "1855 [1606], Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (editor), The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, page 13 (of Appendix)",
          "text": "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, […]."
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          "ref": "1897, Francis Thompson, “[Miscellaneous Odes.] An Anthem of Earth.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, anthem, page 139:",
          "text": "This to the shunless fardel of the world / Nerves my uncurbèd back; […]",
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          "text": "“God in his mercy be thanked” said Katherine. “My dear Lord is then truly and honestly rid of his fardel.”",
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        "(obsolete) A bundle or burden."
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