Obs. [perh. f. bord, BOARD ‘side, border,’ and CORD.] An obsolete game played with a ball by five on each side.

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1591.  in Nichols, Progr. Q. Eliz., III. 117. In this square they (stript out of their dubletts) played, five to five, with the hand ball, at bord and cord (as they tearme it).

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