ferd
/fɜː(ɹ)d/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Provisions for a journey, especially food.
Example Sentences
- "It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge."
- "A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bairn, That they the gude auld hospitality might learn."
- "Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;"
- "George the ferd Erle of Hunlie and second of that name his sone, three. And Jane Gordoun his dochtir, the ferd."
- "Gevin vunder our signet, at Edinburgh, the xxiij day of Marche, and of our regnne the ferd yer."
- "The first & secund regents sall haif quarterlie ilkane threttein schilling four penneis. The thrid fyfteen sehillings and the ferd and principall twenty shillings."
Etymology
From Middle English ferde (“military expedition”), from Old English fierd; see fyrd. Cognate with Dutch vaart (“voyage”), German Fahrt (“journey”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.
Inflected Forms
ferds (plural)
fard (alternative)
faird (alternative)
faerd (alternative)
ferder (comparative)
ferdest (superlative)