Obs. [AF. = OF. baïardeur, a mason’s laborer, who helps to carry the baïard, mod.F. bayart, baïart, or large hand-barrow with six handles on which building stones are carried. Erroneously connected in the Dictionaries with L. bājulātor, and explained from Phillips (1706), onward, as ‘a carrier or bearer of any weight or burden.’ Perhaps never used in Eng. cf. BAYARD2.]
P. Blesensis, Contin. Hist. Croyland, 120. Duos incisores … et duos bajardours servituros ad cariagium petræ.
