burd

American  

[burd] / bɜrd /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. a young lady; maiden.

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Etymology

Origin of burd

1175–1225; Middle English burde lady, perhaps representing Old English byrde well born

Example Sentences

"Now keep, my son, your ha's and tours, Ye have the bright burd in your bours; 115 And keep, my son, your very life, Ye have that ladye to your wife."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Ye lied, ye lied, my bonny burd, Sae loud’s I hear ye lie; As I came by the Lowden banks, They bade gude e’en to me.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Catch’t e the burd-lime’s trecherus twigs,    To weer he chanc’d to stray, The burd iz fassend fathers leaves,    Then gladly flies away.

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis

Aw seized hoid oth burd an made th' best o' my way aghtside, an as sooin as aw showed mi face ther wor a reglar yell, an they all squandered to let me pass.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John

The patridge are a game burd, and are shot on the wing, if they are not missed.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.