Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 2 breod, 3 brid, 3–5 brede, 6 Sc. breid. [Common Teut.: OE. bred, corresp. to MDu. bert(d-), Du. berd, OHG. bret, Ger. brett:—OTeut. *bredo(m, a doublet of *bordo(m BOARD, the two forms corresponding to Skr. *bradha-, *bṛdha-, Aryan *bhre·dho-, *bhrdho·-: see BOARD.] A board; a tablet; in mod. Sc. applied to a bakeboard, and to the wooden lid of a pot, pan, water-butt, etc. (e.g., a pan-bred).

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a. 1000.  Ælfric, Deut. ix. 9. Ða astah ic on þone munt, & bær þa stænenan bredu.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 11. Þas þreo laȝe ȝe-writen inne þa oðre table breode.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 16578. Apon þe hefd o þis rode, ouer-thwart was don a brede.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., C. 184. He [Jonah] watz flowen … In-to þe boþem of þe bot, & on a brede lyggede.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 48. Brede, or lytylle borde, mensula, tabella, asserulus.

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1538.  Aberd. Reg., V. 16 (Jam.). Twa baikbreddis.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. 104. A Braide or Braed which is a broad long Board, with a hole in one end of it … upon this Cooks … carry Bread unbaked, to and from the Bake-House.

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1808.  Jamieson, Sc. Dict., Pot-bred, the wooden lid of a pot. Ass-bred [ash-board].

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  b.  Comb. † bred-cheese, some kind of cheese.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 48/2. Bredechese [v.r. bredchese], jumtata [junctata].

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