Also kardel. [ad. Du. kardeel, quardeel.] A hogshead containing in 17th c. 64 gallons, used in the Dutch whaling trade. See QUARDEEL.
1694. Acc. Sev. Late Voy. (1711), II. 178. The Train-oyl runs into the Warehouse into a Vatt, whereout they fill it into Cardels or Vessels…. A Cardel or Hogshead holds 64 Gallons. Ibid., 11. Cutting the great pieces of fat into lesser pieces, to fill our Kardels with them.
1830. Polar Seas & Regions, 392. They [the Dutch] took 57,590 whales, yielding 3,105,596 quardeelen of oil. [Note, A quardeel of oil contains … from 77 to 90 imperial standard gallons.]
