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fardel

[fahr-dl]

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noun Archaic.

a bundle; burden.

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, tonnage

Examples 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 Prentices
Charlotte M. Yonge
Dye-stuff for white, turning to red colour, made up in fardels of fifty gautins malios, worth five to eight.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX.
Robert Kerr
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 Robinson
Anthony 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 Community
Frederic Seebohm
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

archaic a bundle or burden

Word Origin for fardel

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."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

fardels in Medicine

fardel

[fär-dĕl′]

n.

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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