▪ I. fawd dial.
Also faud.
[Of obscure origin; cf. fad n.1, feald; also fawdom, Sc. var. of fathom.]
A bundle.
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 18 Wheare you see that the water gets yssue..yow may thrust in and ramme downe fawdes of strawe. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Faud, a truss of straw; as much as the two arms will compass. |
▪ II. fawd, fawdom(e
obs. Sc. ff. fold, fathom.