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fardel

[fahr-dl]
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noun Archaic.
  1. a bundle; burden.
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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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Historical Examples

  • 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 Prentices

    Charlotte 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.

  • There were also holders of fardels or quarter-virgates, and half-fardels, or one-eighth-virgates, and other small cottier tenants.

  • It makes me shudder to think of Lamb's Essays being carted about as if they were fardels.

    The Journal of a Disappointed Man

    Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion

British Dictionary definitions for fardels

fardel

noun
  1. archaic a bundle or burden
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Word Origin

C13: from Old French farde, ultimately from Arabic fardah
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Word Origin and History for fardels

fardel

n.

"bundle, burden," c.1300, from Old French fardel (13c., Modern French fardeau) "parcel, package, small pack," diminutive of farde, perhaps from Arabic fardah "package."

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fardels in Medicine

fardel

(fär-dĕl′)
n.
  1. A measurement used in genetic counseling to determine the penalty incurred as a result of the occurrence of a genetic disease in an individual.
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