fardel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
    — I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.
  2. A bundle or burden. obsolete
    — Hees forc't to trot with fardle at his backe, / From houſe to houſe, demaunding if they lacke / A poore yong man that's willing to take paine, / And mickle labour, though for little gaine.
  3. An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland. historical
    — You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
动词 v.
  1. To make up in fardels; to bunch. obsolete,transitive
    — Here are foure vntruths fardelled vp together

词形变化

fardels plural farthel alternative farl alternative fardels plural fardle alternative farthel alternative fardels present,singular,third-person fardeling US,participle,present fardelling UK,participle,present fardeled US,participle,past fardeled US,past fardelled UK,participle,past fardelled UK,past fardle alternative farthel alternative

词汇关系

近义词
nook
上位词
oxgang (2 fardels & for larger divisions)
衍生词
fardel-bound
相关词
farthingdeal a much smaller division of land making up 1⁄4 acre

词源

词源 1
A clipped form of Middle English ferthendel (literally “fourth part”), equivalent to fourth + deal. Cognate with Dutch vierendeel (“a fourth part, quarter”), German Viertel (“a quarter, fourth”), Danish fjerdedel (“a quarter”), Swedish fjärdedel (“a fourth, quarter”).
词源 2
From Middle English fardel, from Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”), from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “one of a pair”), as applied to saddlebags.
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