Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The planking on a ship's side.
- noun Under the Norman kings of England, the tenure by which a bordar held his cot; the services due by a bordar to his lord.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The base or servile
tenure by which abordar held hiscottage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For the two next days the river was still high, until on the 4th April the waters seemed suddenly to give way, and by the following day the river was flowing clear and smooth as a millpond, nothing of winter remaining except the masses of bordage ice which were strewn along the shores of the stream.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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No ice; not the slightest bordage yet in the harbor.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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No ice; not the slightest _bordage_ yet in the harbor.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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