farl

• IPA^(key): /fɑːl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Contraction of fardel, probably with some influence from the Irish fearann meaning a fourth, especially of land or oatcakes. In this specific sense, fearann itself may be a possible cognate from a Norse or Old English root.

farl (plural farls)

1. (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
2. Any such cake or bread, now especially an Irish speciality such as a soda farl or potato farl.

• soda bread
• potato bread

farl (third-person singular simple present farls, present participle farling, simple past and past participle farled)

1. Obsolete form of furl.
   • 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, Act 1, Scene 1, First Beaumont and Fletcher folio, 1854, Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 2, page 416,

     Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull ! Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !

• “farl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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