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boarden en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English borden, bordyn, burden, equivalent to board + -en (“made or consisting of”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Made of boards or wood; wooden
    • Biddy nodded. 'I see Mickey's wans are puttin' in a boarden floor in the room,' she said. 2005, Peadar O'Donnell, Islanders, page 45:
    • After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor. 1812, William Steel Dickson, A narrative of the confinement and exile of William Steel Dickson:
    • A domestic servant, native of North Devon, said: “There's a boarden box up there.” 1913, Report & Transactions, volumes 45-46, page 79:
    • And after dinner, by water to White-hall and there waited, till the Council rose, in the boarden gallery. 1972, Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William Matthews, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1666, page 177: