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† brerd Obs. exc. dial.
Also 1 breard, briord, 3 breord, 4 brurde, 4–5 brerde, 6 Sc. breird.
[OE. brerd brim, margin; cf. OHG. brort, brord prow, margin, lip, also OE. brord point, prick, ON. broddr shaft, pike: see braird, and brod.]
The topmost surface or edge: rim, brim, brink.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John ii. 7 Hiᵹ ᵹefyldon þa oþ þone brerd [Lindisf. & Rushw. briorde]. c1050Ags. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 178 Crepido, brerd uel ofer. c1200Ormin 14040 And filledenn upp till þe brerd Wiþþ waterr þeȝȝre fetless. c1205Lay. 23322 From breorde to grunde. a1225Ancr. R. 324 Þe þet nappeð upon helle brerde, he torpleð ofte al in. 1382Wyclif Ex. xxxvii. 11 He made to it a goldun brerde. 1424E.E. Wills (1882) 56 Six saucers of siluere merkid with a sink foil vnder þe brerdez. c1475Cath. Angl. 42 (MS. A) Brerde [v.r. Brede] of a wessille, labrum, abses. 1596Declar. etc. Melville's MS. 279 (Jam.) Has gotten the breird to drink. a1758Ramsay Sc. Proverbs (1776) 19 (Jam.) Better hain at the brierd than at the bottom. 1808Jamieson s.v. Breird, ‘The brerd of the water’ is..still used in Dumbartonshire for the surface of it.
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