fardel

n. 束, 包

发音

其它 /ˈfɑː(ɹ)dəl/

词形变化

fardels 复数 fardelled fardelling fardels 三单 fardeling 现在分词 fardelling 现在分词 fardeled 过去式 fardeled 过去分词 fardelled 过去式 fardelled 过去分词

别名

farthel farl fardle

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fourth part: a quarter of anything.

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

  2. 2.

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

    历史
  3. 1.

    A bundle or burden.

    废旧

    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, […].

v.
  1. 1.

    To make up in fardels; to bunch.

    废旧 及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

load burden onus encumbrance incumbrance

词源

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”).

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