furdle

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Etymology

See fardel, and compare furl.

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furdle (third-person singular simple present furdles, present participle furdling, simple past and past participle furdled)

  1. (obsolete) To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
    • c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearn, , published 1683, →OCLC:
      Jericho [] though crumpled and furdled up, [] , if infuſed in Water, will ſwell and diſplay its parts.

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