dial. [:—OE. beorʓ, beorh fem. (only in compounds), ʓebeorh neut. ME. bergh, shelter, f. beorʓan to shelter, BERGH.] Shelter.
1577. Harrison, England, I. II. xxiv. 358. Enclosed burrowes where their legions accustomed … to winter. Ibid., 360. The boroughs or buries were certeine plots of ground, whereon the Roman souldiers did use to lie, when they kept in the open field.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XVIII. vi. 114. Flat levell and plaine fields not able to affoord us … any borough to shelter us [latibula præbere sufficiens].
1867. Leisure Hour, 352. Where there has been convenient shelter or burrow, as it is called in Oxfordshire, from the wind.
