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单词 farthingdeal
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farthingdealn.

Forms: Middle English forthingdole, 1500s–1600s farthendele, 1600s–1700s fardingdeal(e, farthingdole, far(r)undell, 1700s fortingle.
Etymology: representing Old English féorðan dǽl , accusative of féorða dǽl fourth part: see fourth adj. and n. and deal n.1 Compare halfendeal n., adj., and adv., thirdendeal n. The first element was afterwards regarded as a form of farthing n.
Obsolete.
1. gen. A fourth part.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > division into four > a fourth part
fourth part, dealc1000
quarternc1300
quarterc1330
farthingdeala1400
quart?1454
fardel1508
qr.1526
qtr.1571
quaternity1633
fierdhalf1674
fourth1741
a1400–50 Alexander 3844 Als fast as þai þe forthing~dole had of þe flode past.
2. spec.
a. The fourth part of an acre; a rood.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure
wandalec1150
wista1200
landc1400
ridge1439
peck1442
scrophec1450
buttc1460
rig1485
mark1488
stick1531
farthingdeal1543
plough-gang1548
quarterland1563
ploughgate1565
last1576
wand1596
ox-skin1610
garbred1621
plank1631
nooka1634
buttal1635
farthinga1640
rick1641
familia1676
rhandir1688
setiera1690
worthine1701
fierding1768
whip-land1811
rai1933
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > quarter acre or rood
roodlOE
rod1449
yardc1450
particate1489
farthingdeal1543
yardland1543
stang1570
farthing-land1602
ferling1695
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. N.v A rodde of londe, whiche some call a roode..some a farthendele.
1600 T. Hylles Arte Vulgar Arithm. 67 a A farthendele or roode of lande.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ee1/1 Farding deale aliás Farundell of land..signifieth the fourth part of an acre.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Fardingdeal, Farundel of Land, the fourth part of an Acre.
1721–36 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Fortingle.
1835 Rep. Muncipal Corporations Comm. II. App. 1248 The remaining..acres are divided into quarter acres, called ‘farthingdoles’.
b. See quot. a1641; = farthing n. 4b.
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a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 156 Quarter of a yard land called a farrundell.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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