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Etymology

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bordar (or perhaps bord (a board)) + land.

Noun

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bordland (plural bordlands)

  1. (UK, law, obsolete) The land held by a bordar.
  2. (UK, law, obsolete) The land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bordland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)