Obs. Forms: 3 thriddedel, 4 þridde deel, 5 thryddele, 6 thirdle, thirdel. [ME. thriddedel :—OE. þridda dǽl third part: see DEAL sb.1 Cf. Ger. drittel.] A third part of anything); = next.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 283. Þe þriddedel mi kinedom ich ȝiue þe to be mi fere.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 169. Þe quene hadde i-sent hire ȝong sone wiþ þe þridde deel [MS. β. thriddel, Caxton thryddele] of heere oost aȝenst Cirus.
1542. Recorde, Gr. Artes, K vj b. There bee tertians (that is to say thirdles) of pypes, of hogges heddes, and of barels. Ibid., L iij. Take awaye 2 thyrdeles frome any summe, and you muste needes graunt, that that whyche remayneth, is 1 thyrdele of the summe laste before.
