adv. and sb. Forms: (see quots.). [Reduced form of SOUTHWARD.] = SOUTHWARD adv. and sb.
In first quot. perhaps a mere misprint.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, IV. xxv. 153. Now torne we vnto syr Marhaus that rode with the damoysel … southard.
1624. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1909), III. 14. To the southerd of Tegnapatan some three leages there is four pagodes, as if were four great trees.
1849. Bentley’s Misc., XXV. 38. I mounted ‘Hildebrand,’ bent on a fortnight’s excursion to the south’ard.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., xvii. A strong rippling current running … south’ard.
