fardle

“Tamari for Maschat sadines 2 and a half, and 3 by the fardle.”

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

“I slipped about on the ice and groaned with that terrible fardle on my back, burdened with a dozen shirts, and a suit of dress clothes, and three pair of boots, and four or five thick volumes, and a set of maps, and a box of cigars, and a washing tub, I confessed to myself that I was a fool.”

North America

“We have heard much of the power of godliness, by which indeed is meant only the godly party being in power; and the godly party with them are those who have sworn the destruction of monarchy and of the church, and have bewitched the people with a fardle of strange, canting, insignificant words.”

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.

“She said spill them all, so there’d be none left to fardle a a grutch, a grouch.”

Simon & Schuster: Wildfire