Crossword clues for fardel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fardel \Far"del\, v. t.
To make up in fardels. [Obs.]
--Fuller.
Fardel \Far"del\, n. [OF. fardel, F. fardeau; cf. Sp. fardel,
fardillo, fardo, LL. fardellus; prob. fr. Ar. fard one of the
two parts of an object divisible into two, hence, one of the
two parts of a camel's load. Cf. Furl.]
A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden. [Obs.]
--Shak.
A fardel of never-ending misery and suspense.
--Marryat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bundle, burden," c.1300, from Old French fardel "parcel, package, small pack" (13c., Modern French fardeau), diminutive of farde, which OED says is "cognate with" (others say "from") Spanish fardo "pack, bundle," which is said to be from Arabic fardah "package."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 A fourth part: a quarter of anything. 2 (context: historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. n. 1 A fourth part: a quarter of anything. 2 (context: historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. Etymology 2
alt. (context obsolete English) a bundle or burden n. (context obsolete English) a bundle or burden vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To make up in fardels.
WordNet
n. a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle)
Usage examples of "fardel".
Age should throw off its fardel of aches and pains, and no longer groan along its weary road, meeting cold looks and unwilling welcomes, as both host and comrade grow weary of the same face, and the spendthrift heart has no longer quip or smile wherewith to pay the reckoning?
As he spoke, a dozen men rushed forward, each screening himself behind a huge fardel of brushwood.
After retrieving her fardel and lashing it to the saddle, she adjusted the stirrups and mounted.
Others carried coils of rope, fardels of bamboo poles, and rolls of cloth.