Definition of "fardel" in English

noun

1. A fourth part: a quarter of anything.

   • I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.

2. (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.

noun

1. (obsolete) A bundle or burden.

   • It doth also appear by the abbreviate of the accounts sent home out of the Indies, that there remained in the hands of the agent, master Starkey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels of long malow girdles, […].

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels; to bunch.