fardel

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fardel - n., a bundle, a pack, a burden.


From Old French, diminutive of farde, package, from Arabic farda, single piece, pack, bundle, from farada, to be separate. Or so claims American Heritage -- other dictionaries add perhaps to that Arabic link.

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