simple past tense and past participle of fardel

plural of fardel

A fourth part: a quarter of anything. / (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.

(obsolete) A bundle or burden.

(obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels; to bunch.

present participle of fardel

constipated, especially of cattle and sheep, by the retention of food in the third stomach