furdle

English

Etymology

See fardel, and compare furl.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl

Verb

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.

References

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

Anagrams

• furled