fardel

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Noun

fardel (plural fardels)

1. 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.

2. (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
   • ante 1634 W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:

     You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

   • 1706, Phillips's New World of Words:

     Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a Yard-land.

Synonyms

• (fourth of anything) See quarter
• (fourth of a yardland) See nook

Related terms

• farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up frac 4 acre

Noun

fardel (plural fardels)

1. (obsolete) A bundle or burden.
   • circa 1599 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 3, Scene 1, 1843, J. Payne Collier (editor), The Works of William Shakespeare, page 261 ↗,

     Who would fardels bear

     to grunt and sweat under a weary life […]

   • 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 (fardels, present participle fardelling; past and past participle fardelled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels.

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