ferthing (s.xiii2)
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ferthing (s.xiii2)

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  FEW:  feorðing 3,462a / feorðing 15/ii,121a / farthing 18,60a Gdf:  ferdin 3,753b GdfC: ∅ TL: ferdin 3,1730 DEAF:  ferdin F265 DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  farthing n.  MED:  ferthing n.  DMLBS:  ferthingus 1 930a
farthyng;  ferding;  ferging;  fersinge;  ferthinge,  ferthyng;  ferying (l. ferþing),  feryinge (l. ferþing);  ferzing,  ferzinge  
ls(loanword: M.E. )
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There is considerable overlap in usage between this word and the related word ferlin, reflecting the appending, in Old English, of two different suffixes, -ling suffix 1 and -ing suffix 3 to the etymon feorþ.

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1curr.finan.farthing, one-fourth of a penny (or other coin): 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  Esterlyng, maylle, ferying (l. ferþing) (var. (D: s.xiv2) farthing; (A: s.xiv1/4) ferthing) fet forger roundement  235.74
( 1343-50 )  Cele an fut le chaunge levé de la novele moneye esterling, maile et ferzing, a le tour de Loundres  17.2
♦finan.price of one farthing: 
( MS: c.1275 )  si li pain de ferthing est en defaute de rien utre duze deners li pestur est en la merci  34.37
2unitweightmeasure of weight, one-fourth of a pennyweight: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  Pren l’oylle del popi pesant a un ferthing  134.11
( MS: s.xiv )  si il i at demy livre de quantité, dunc i metez un fersinge de vif argent  225.38
3unitlengthmeasure of land, one-fourth of a virgate: 
( 1317-1318 )  cely Johan tient del prior un mes et un ferthinge de terre en V.  Ed II xxii 24
ferthing seal
1merch.(smaller) quarter-seal or seal indicating the payment of a farthing for customs: 
( 1399 )  et auxi nulle drap, de quelle laieure qe soit, ne soleit ensealez estre (=apart from) de nul seal appellé le ferthyng seal  iii 437
ferling  fretyn 
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