Sc. Also 8 farle, 9 farrel. [Contraction for FARDEL sb.2] Originally, the fourth part of a thin cake made either of flour or oatmeal; now applied to a cake of similar kind and size, whether quadrant-shaped or not.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 91.
| And there will be lapper’d-milk kebbucks, | |
| And sowens, and farles, and baps, | |
| With swats, and well scraped paunches, | |
| And brandy in stoups and in caps. |
1787. Burns, The Holy Fair, vii.
| The lasses, skelpin barefit, thrang, | |
| In silks an’ scarlets glitter; | |
| Wi’ sweet-milk cheese, in monie a whang, | |
| An farls, bak’d wi’ butter. |
1830. Scott, Leg. Montrose, iii. I have tasted no food since daybreak but a farl of oat-cake.
