fardel

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I’ll rest my fardel a bit on the stile while Emmet comes up.”

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.

I observed one bringing in a fardel, very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloak, which, upon his throwing it into the heap, I discovered to be poverty.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

There was a subdued s-s-s-h as the white fardel slid slowly seaward, followed by a sullen plunge.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

Eye-colours for dying blue, almost as good as indigo, made up in round cakes, and packed 100 cakes in a fardel, worth fifty to sixty.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

His gold chain of pride he hath laid aside,   And furred gown of the scarlet red;He set on his back a fardel and pack,   And a hood on his grizzled head.

From More Bywords by Yonge, Charlotte Mary