fardel

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I'll but lay down my fardel, and then step o'er to poor Sens Bradbridge And I'll come to see her this even.

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  1. noun A pack; a bundle.
  2. noun A burden.

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  • The word "farls" is derived from the Gaelic word "fardel," meaning a quarter or fourth part.
  • I'll but lay down my fardel, and then step o'er to poor Sens Bradbridge And I'll come to see her this even. —  All's Well Alice's Victory
  • I observed one bringing in a fardel, very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloak, which, upon his throwing it into the heap, I discovered to be poverty. —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
  • Altogether never was such a satisfactory "fardel" brought by Hymen's or any other express company before; and in opening the packages, reading the notes that came with them and exclaiming and admiring, time flew so fast that Rose quite forgot the hour, till little Rose, growing sleepy, reminded her of it by saying Mamma, I dess I'd better do to bed now, betause if I don't I shall be too seepy to turn to Aunt Taty's wedding to-mowwow Dear me!" —  Clover
  • I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old shepherd deliver the manner how he found it: whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all commanded out of the chamber; only this, methought I heard the shepherd say he found the child AUTOLYCUS. —  The Winter's Tale
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of farde, package, from Arabic farda, single piece, pack, bundle, from farada, to be separate; see prd in Semitic roots.

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  1. Also farthel, farl, q. v.; a corruption of Middle English ferthe (or feorthe) del (= Dutch vierendeel = Middle High German vierteil, German viertel = Old Danish fjerddel, Danish fjerdedel = Sw. fjerdedel), fourth part: see fourth and deal.
 

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/ˈfɑrdɛl, dl/
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