farl

Meanings

1. A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
2. Any such cake or bread, now especially an Irish speciality such as a soda farl or potato farl.

1. Obsolete form of furl.

Etymology

Contraction of fardel, probably with some influence from the Irish fearann meaning a fourth, especially of land or oatcakes. In this specific sense, fearann itself may be a possible cognate from a Norse or Old English root.