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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1608-1643
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Burder, Buirder, n. Also: bwirder, buirdour, boorder. [e.m.E. boorder (1530), f. Burde v.] A boarder.1608 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 519.
All thingis requisite for honest buirdouris 1616 Sutherland Corr. 122.
I supone he salbe a long bwirder 1620 Rep. Eglinton Mun. No. 128.
Hes preceis price of his buirders sitting at tabill is tuo hunder merk 1643 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 532.
All thingis requisit for the … Colledge table and intertenement of the founded persones and burders thairin 1643 Ib.
The count of buirds receaved fra buirdours 1643 Ib. 534.
Summa of money received from buirders
