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† ˈferling Obs. exc. Hist.
[OE. féorðling, f. féorð-a fourth + -ling.]
= farthing.
1. As a coin: The fourth part of a penny.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xxi. 2 Þa ᵹeseah he sume earme wydewan bringan tweᵹen feorð-lingas. a1300Agst. King of Almaigne 10 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 69 Richard..spende al is tresour opon swyvyng; Haveth he nout of Walingford o ferlyng. 1605Camden Rem. (1636) 125 Two Easterlings & one ferling. 1707Fleetwood Chron. Prec. (1745) 40 Ferling..is a Farthing or the 4th Part of a Sterling.
2. (See quot.)
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 497 There were in this Borrough foure Ferlings, that is quarters or wards.
3. The fourth part
a. of an acre;
b. of a hide.
1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Furendellus, A fardingel, farundel or ferling of land, i.e. the fourth part of an acre. 1846G. Oliver Monast. Exon. 321 note, The ferling was, perhaps, thirty acres. |