or Borde, Boorde, subs. (old cant).—A shilling: see RHINO. The origin is unknown. For synonyms, see BLOW.
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, 85. ROGE, But bouse there a BORD, i.e., but drink there a shilling.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, 37 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. BOORD, a shilling; Halfe a BOORD, sixepence.
1611. DEKKER, The Roaring Girle, Wks. (1873) III., 219. My Lord Noland … bestowes vpon you two, two BOORDES and a half.
1671. R. HEAD, The English Rogue, I., v., 47 (1874). BORDE, a shilling.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BORDE, c. a Shilling, HALF A BORDE, c. Sixpence.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. [The same definition.]
