Obs. Also 6–7 fardle, 7 fardell. 7–8 farthel(l. [f. prec. sb.; cf. OF. fardeler, and see FARL, FURDLE, FURL vbs.]
1. trans. To make into a bundle; fig. in quots. Also to fardel up.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, i. (1596), 10. I haue alwaies held it an errour, to heare many lessons of diuers matters, and to carrie them all home fardled vp together.
1660. S. Fisher, Rustick’s Alarm, Wks. 443. Promises, Prophesies, Psalms, Proverbs, Parables … found and fardelled together, and fram’d in their own fancies into a Foundation of the Faith.
1701. Beverley, Apoc. Quest., 33. So that all I can suppose, is, that it is Fardled up in the Four First Trumpets.
2. Naut. = FURL.
1582. N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., 72 b. The Captaine generall commanded their sailes to be taken in, and to fardle vp their sprits sailes.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 21. This Ensigne … if fardled vp, all they are to do in the like order.
1630. Drayton, Muses Elizium, VII. 98.
| For she had got a pretty handsome Packe, | |
| Which she had fardled neatly at her backe. |
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., Farthell, Farthelling; is the same with what the Seamen now call Furl or Furling.
