Obs. Also 7 Sc. ferdall, farthel. Also FARTHINGDEAL and Sc. FARL. [repr. OE. féorða dǽl fourth part; see FOURTH a. and DEAL sb.] A fourth part of anything. Fardel of land (see quots. 1641, 1706). Also in pl. Quarters, pieces, fragments.
c. 1440. Gaw. & Gol., 1019. The scheld in fardellis can fle, in feild away fer.
1627. Dumbarton Burgh Rec., in J. Irving, Hist. Dumbartonshire (1860), 483. It is statute and ordanit … that thair be onlie four kaiks in the pek and thrie ferdalls in ilk kaik onlie.
1641. Noy, Compl. Lawyer (1651), 57. Two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
c. 1666. W. Sutherland, in Wodrow, Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot., I. App. 101. They offered me Meat and Drink, but I refused and would not take it, but bougnt a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a Yard-land.
1883. F. Seebohm, Eng. Village Community, 57. There were also holders of fardels or quarter-virgates, and half-fardels or one-eighth-virgates.
