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Webster 1913 Edition


Bord

Bord

,
Noun.
[See
Board
,
Noun.
]
1.
A board; a table.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
(Mining)
The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Bord

,
Noun.
See
Bourd
.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Definition 2024


bòrd

bòrd

See also: bord and borð

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

bòrd m (genitive singular bùird, plural bùird)

  1. table (furniture)
  2. plank, board
  3. board (of directors, etc.)
  4. (nautical) deck (of a ship)

Derived terms

Verb

bòrd (past bhòrd, future bòrdaidh, verbal noun bòrdadh, past participle bòrdte)

  1. (nautical) tack
  2. board (a ship, etc.)
    Bhòrd iad an long. ― They boarded the ship.

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • bord” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.