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Definition of 'bourd'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
  • The wisard could no lenger beare her bord, / But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd; / Glauce, what needs this colourable word [...]?

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To jest.
  • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)