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burden
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþ?, from Proto-Germanic *burþ??, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to carry, bear”).
Alternative forms
- burthen (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??dn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?dn/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
Noun
burden (plural burdens)
- A heavy load.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- A responsibility, onus.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered
- Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
- c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- a ship of a hundred tons burden
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- (obsolete, rare) A birth.
- […] that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
burden (third-person singular simple present burdens, present participle burdening, simple past and past participle burdened)
- (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
- (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
Derived terms
- burden basket
- burdensome
- beast of burden
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French bordon. See bourdon.
Noun
burden (plural burdens)
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
- 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
- As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ruddiman to this entry?)
- Theme, core idea.
References
Anagrams
- bunder, burned, unbred
Middle English
Etymology 1
From bord +? -en (“adjectival ending”)
Adjective
burden
- Alternative form of borden
Etymology 2
From burde +? -en (“plural ending”)
Noun
burden
- plural of burde
West Frisian
Noun
burden
- plural of burd
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fardel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??(?)d?l/
Etymology 1
A clipped form of Middle English ferthendel (literally “fourth part”), equivalent to fourth +? deal. Cognate with Dutch vierendeel (“a fourth part, quarter”), German Viertel (“a quarter, fourth”), Danish fjerdedel (“a quarter”), Swedish fjärdedel (“a fourth, quarter”).
Alternative forms
- farthel, farl
Noun
fardel (plural fardels)
- A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
- c. 1666, W. Sutherland in R. Wodrow's The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, volume I, Appendix: page 101:
- I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.
- c. 1666, W. Sutherland in R. Wodrow's The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, volume I, Appendix: page 101:
- (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
- You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
- 1706, Phillips's New World of Words:
- Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a Yard-land.
- a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:
Hypernyms
- (fourth of anything): See third (1 1?3 quarters & for smaller subdivisions)
- (fourth of a yardland): See oxgang (2 fardels & for larger divisions)
- (fourth of an oxgang): See nook (2 fardels & for larger divisions)
Synonyms
- (fourth of anything): See quarter
- (fourth of a yardland): See nook
Hyponyms
- (fourth of anything): See fifth (4?5 of a quarter & for smaller subdivisions)
- (unit of land area): See acre (Various & for small subdivisions)
Related terms
- farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up 1?4 acre
Etymology 2
From Middle English fardel, from Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”), from Arabic ???????? (farda, “cloth, woman's clothes”).
Alternative forms
- fardle
- farthel
Noun
fardel (plural fardels)
- (obsolete) A bundle or burden.
- 1855 [1606], Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (editor), The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, page 13 (of Appendix):
- It doth also appear by the abbreviate of the accounts sent home out of the Indies, that there remained in the hands of the agent, master Starkey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels of long malow girdles, […].
- 1855 [1606], Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (editor), The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, page 13 (of Appendix):
Verb
fardel (third-person singular simple present fardels, present participle fardelling or fardeling, simple past and past participle fardelled or fardeled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Alfred, Falder, fardle, farled, flared, larfed
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