buird

See also: bùird

Manx

Noun

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of boayrd
2. plural of boayrd

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bord (“board, slab; table; boat; shield”), from Old English bord (“board; plank; table; shield; deck; ship; boundary”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). Cognate with English board.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bøːrd/
• IPA^(key): /beːrd/
• IPA^(key): /bi(ː)rd/
• IPA^(key): /b(j)uːrd/

Noun

buird (plural buirds)

1. board (relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making)
   • 1847, James Paterson, The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire, page 90:

     A briest like a buird, and a back like a door.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. table
   • 1877, Alex G. Murdoch, The Laird's Lykewake and Other Poems‎^[1], London, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Simpkin, Marshal, & Co.; John Menzies & Co,, Bring the Bodie Ben, page 183:

     They brocht him ben, an' sat him doun before a weel-spread buird,

     They brought him in, and sat him down before a well-spread table,