(a) A board, a plank; stif as ani ~, stiff as a board; Estlond ~, board imported from Norway or the Baltic countries; oken (okes) ~, an oak board; wainscot ~; (b) coll. lumber, timber, wood; barel ~, boards for making casks or barrels; regal ~, ?grooved boards, ?straightened boards; shingle ~, boards for making shingles; walsh ~, ?Welsh lumber, ?foreign lumber; ~ of Irelond; elm(e ~, oken ~, popler ~; (c) ~ ax, ax used in splitting timber into boards; ~ bed, wooden bed; ~ clever, ~ heuer, one who splits timber into boards; ~ clog, piece of rough timber, block from which boards are made; ~ dish, ?wooden dish; -- pers. name; ~ kible, wooden bucket; ~ maser, wooden bowl; ~ nail, nail used for fastening boards; ~ wough, partition made of boards, ?panelling; (d) ?the rim of a vessel; ?error for (or form of) brērd n.

An object made of boards: (a) a wooden tablet for an inscription; (b) some kind of board (?or table) used in making cloth; plating ~, a board or table on which cloth is folded; (c) a wooden tray or platter; (d) ?a box or chest [?error for burden load, pack, etc.].

A table: (a) a household table of any kind; folen (folding) ~, a folding table; (b) a workman's table or workbench, a cook's table or sideboard; dressing ~, a table on which food is prepared; (c) a table on which goods are displayed for sale; a moneychanger's table; (d) a desk or table for keeping accounts; counting ~; ?also, a wooden tablet on which reckonings are made; (e) a table for games; plaiing ~, gaming table; (f) an altar; Goddes ~; remeven fro Goddes ~, to excommunicate (sb.).

(a) A dining table; hegh ~, the chief or head table, table of honor; (b) the top of a table; (c) the Round Table; also, the knights of the Round Table; Arthures ~.

(a) ~ felau, table companion, close companion; ~ knif, table knife, carving knife; bord(es) ende, the foot of the table (as opposed to the head); (b) breden ~, curen ~, drauen ~, leien ~, maken ~, setten (forth) ~, spreden ~, to set a table, set up the table and cover it with food, etc.; heven ~, upsetten ~, to set up a table on its trestles; (c) beren doun (awei) ~, drauen ~, taken (up) ~, uptaken ~, withdrauen ~, to take down and remove the table (s) after a meal; bordes weren adoun (aside, up), the tables had been removed; (d) biginnen the ~, to sit at the head of the table; nimen to ~, take (a child) to (one's) table after weaning; risen fro ~, rise from the table after eating, leave the table; setten at ~, seat (sb.) at the table; sitten at (on, to) ~, sit down to a meal, sit at the table, dine; (e) ministren to ~, to serve at a table; serven at (unto) ~, serve (sb.) at the table, wait on; under the ~, ?acting as a waiter or table servant.

~ maker, ~ wright, ?a maker of boards [= ~ clever], ?a maker of tables.

(a) A meal; biriing ~, funeral feast; Lordes ~, the Lord's Supper; (b) coll. meals, food; esp., meals taken away from home; bed and ~, board and lodgings; (c) ben at ~, gon to ~, to take one's meals (somewhere), board (with sb.); holden at ~, feed (sb.) at (one's) table; holden to ~, take (sb.) in as a boarder; maken ~ with, take (one's) meals with (sb.), eat with; (d) in (at) bed and (at) ~, to ~ and bed, in bed and at table, in all the affairs of married life; (e) ~ silver, payment for meals.

(a) A ship; (b) binnen ~, within ~, within a ship, aboard; ~ on (with) ~, ship alongside ship; on (upon) ~, on board a ship, on deck; (c) the side of a ship; on the ~, on the side, on the gunwale; over the ~, over the side of the ship, overboard; (d) shipes ~, the side of a ship; into (within) shipes ~, aboard a ship; withouten shipes ~, out of the ship (s); (e) course of a ship in tacking, side, direction, tack; (f) ~ seil, some kind of sail.

A shield.