fardel
a bundle; burden.
Origin of fardel
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How to use fardel in a sentence
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 SeebohmSeven years before 1592 this company performed mostly in the provinces, carrying their "fardels on their backs."
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 | Arthur AchesonI shall sleep the sweeter for those fardels: and I count I should sleep none the worser if man laughed at me.
In Convent Walls | Emily Sarah HoltThen 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 TrollopeSir Thomas, as he sat there listening and thinking, unable not to think and not to listen, found that the fardels were very heavy.
Ralph the Heir | Anthony Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for fardel
/ (ˈfɑːdəl) /
archaic a bundle or burden
Origin of fardel
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