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Bord vs Bourd - What's the difference?

bord | bourd |

As nouns the difference between bord and bourd

is that bord is a birth (the event), childbirth, delivery while bourd is (obsolete) a joke; jesting, banter.

As a verb bourd is

(obsolete) to jest.

bord

English

Etymology 1

See board.

Noun

(en noun)
  • *:
  • *:At Alisaundre he was, whan it was wonne. / Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord [table] bigonne / Aboven alle nacions in Pruce;

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
    • ----

    bourd

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
    • The wisard could no lenger beare her bord, / But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd; / Glauce, what needs this colourable word [...]?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To jest.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)