boord

boord (plural boords)

1. Obsolete form of board.

• Dobro, brood, dobro, droob

• IPA^(key): /boːrt/

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• Hyphenation: boord
• Rhymes: -oːrt

From Middle Dutch boorde, from Old Dutch *bordo, from Proto-Germanic *burdô.

boord m (plural boorden, diminutive boordje n)

1. border, boundary
2. shore, bank
3. (also neuter) collar (of a shirt)

   witte boorden: the white-collar class

• (border): grens
• (shore): oever
• (collar): kraag

From Middle Dutch boort, from earlier bort. Doublet of bord.

boord m or n (plural boorden, diminutive boordje n)

1. (nautical) a collective term used for both sides of a ship (the starboard and the port)
2. the entire ship

   aan boord: on board, aboard

• brood

boord

1. Alternative form of bord