Middle English Dictionary Entry
sīde-bō̆rd n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sīde-bō̆rd n. |
| Etymology | From sīde n. & bō̆rd n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A table to the side of the high table, running along the side of the hall for those of lower status; (b) a board supporting the side of a bed; also, a board constituting part of the side of a structure [2nd quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- (a1383) *MS.Hostill.Roll,Durham [OD col.] : Sidbords & ij mapp. pro les copbord'.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.36 : Þis maister was made sitte as for þe moste worthy, And þanne clergye and conscience..Pacience and I were put to be macches And seten by owre selue at a syde-borde.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)115 : Þise were diȝt on þe des & derworþly serued, & siþen mony siker segge at þe sidbordez.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)455 : Syde borde, or tabyl: Assidella.
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.49/11 : I will he haf..the best borde for the hye dese & all ye side burdes ligyng dessely in the hall.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)102/27 : The herte wente aboute the Rounde Table, and as he wente by the syde-bourdis the brachet ever boote hym by the buttocke.
- a1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)819 : Torrent a syd bord began, The squyeres nexte hym than.
b
- (1463-4) Reg.Chanc.Oxf.in OHS 94129 : Item, ii syde bordys of a bed with iiii fete.
- (1474) Doc.Manor in MP 3455 : Sydebordis.