Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
board . - noun A jest; a joke; fun.
- noun Mockery; scoffing.
- To jest; joke; say things in jest.
- To make game of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A jest.
- intransitive verb obsolete To jest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
joke ;jesting ,banter . - verb obsolete To jest.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every board foot of reclaimed wood used in construction is a bourd foot of wood that is not harvested from a forest.
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Naow awl weez hasta du iys getts her tu oavercum hers dyslike ov wadder and awlso geyt hers awntu a dyving bourd atta swymming puul.
Olympic Diver Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And I went on bourd into one of them, wherein I could not finde any yron at all, and in the space of 28 dayes I arriued at the city of Thana, wherein foure of our friers were martyred for the faith of Christ.
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At Alisandre hee was, when it was wonne: full oft time hee had the bourd begon abouen all nations in Pruce,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And amonges uther thingis he told such a meary bourd.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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[83] Knox has been blamed for recording this "merry bourd" or jest; but
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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The like hapned on a time at the Duke of Northumberlandes bourd, where merry _John Heywood_ was allowed to sit at the tables end.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Fr. _bourder_, to toy, trifle, dally; bourd or ieast with.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Monkbarns, if ye howk up the bourock, as ye seem to have began, yell find, if ye hae not fund it already, a stane that ane o 'the mason-callants cut a ladle on to have a bourd at the bridegroom, and he put four letters on't, that's A.D.L.L. --- Aiken Drum's Lang
The Antiquary 1845
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The lady drew up, and the provost said, half aside, 'The sooth bourd is nae bourd.
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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