[a. F. bordage, f. bord side, border to border.]
1. Naut. ‘The planking on a ship’s side.’ Mod. Dicts.
2. That which forms the border of anything.
1860. Sir W. Logan, in Borthwick, Brit. Amer. Reader, 149. When forced into a narrow part of the channel, the lateral pressure it [the ice] there exerts drives the bordage up the banks, where it sometimes accumulates to the height of from forty to fifty feet.
