fardel
[fahr-dl]
Origin of fardel
1375–1425; late Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French < Old Provençal, equivalent to fard(a) bundle (≪ Arabic fardah load) + -el < Latin -ellus; see -elle
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Related Words for fardels
transportation, shipping, carriage, consignment, shipment, payload, merchandise, load, lading, encumbrance, weight, wares, bulk, haul, conveyance, ballast, burden, contents, pack, fardelExamples from the Web for fardels
Historical Examples of fardels
He also bade them leave their fardels behind, as, if they tarried at York House, these could be easily sent after them.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
Dye-stuff for white, turning to red colour, made up in fardels of fifty gautins malios, worth five to eight.
Then he made up his mind that the fardels must still be borne, and again went home to his lodgings.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and RobinsonAnthony Trollope
There were also holders of fardels or quarter-virgates, and half-fardels, or one-eighth-virgates, and other small cottier tenants.
The English Village CommunityFrederic Seebohm
It makes me shudder to think of Lamb's Essays being carted about as if they were fardels.
The Journal of a Disappointed ManWilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
fardel
Word Origin for fardel
C13: from Old French farde, ultimately from Arabic fardah
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