Meaning of fardel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
2. A bundle or burden.
   obsolete
3. An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“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, […].”

“This to the shunless fardel of the world / Nerves my uncurbèd back; […]”

““God in his mercy be thanked” said Katherine. “My dear Lord is then truly and honestly rid⟳ of his fardel.””

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