v. Obs. [var. of FARDEL, v.] trans. To furl or fold. Also with up.
1594. Glenham, News fr. Levane Seas, 16. Their sayles furdeld.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Peace France, Wks. III. 114/1. The Colours furdled vp, the Drum is mute.
1635. Foxs Voy. N.-W. Pass. (Hakluyt Soc.), 496. Westrooke all our sayles and furdeld them up.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), i. 34. Which being a drie and ligneous Plant, is preserved many years, and though crumpled and furdled up, yet, if infused in Water, will swell and display its parts.
Hence Furdled ppl. a., † Furdling vbl. sb.
1658. Sir T. Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, iii. 48. Nor to urge the thwart enclosure and furdling of flowers, and Blossomes before explication, as in the multiplied leaves of Pionie.