ord
see also: Ord
Noun
Ord
Proper noun
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see also: Ord
Noun
ord
- Abbreviation of order#English|order.
- (law) Abbreviation of ordinance#English|ordinance.
ord (plural ords)
- (now chiefly UK dialectal) A point.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal) A point of origin; a beginning.
- 1897, Frank Cowan, The millionaire:
- "[...] But such is life — hard upon hard from ord to end; and if I had not been made of the best of neat-leather, the longer in water the tougher, I would have melted away with my tears long ago!"
- 1924, Esmoreit, Adriaan Jacob Barnouw, An ingenious play of Esmoreit: the king's son of Sicily:
- [...] Tell me wholly as it was From ord to end how it did pass When first your father was of me ware.
- 1897, Frank Cowan, The millionaire:
- (now chiefly UK dialectal) A point of land; a promontory.
- 1900, Cai.:
- When a man came from Sutherland into Caithness over the Ord [of Caithness, in the southern tip of the county], he was called an ord-louper .
- 1900, Cai.:
- (now chiefly UK dialectal) The point or edge of a weapon.
- Saul drew his sword, And ran even upon the ord. — Cursor Mundi.
- And touched him with the spear's ord. — Romance of Sir Otuel.
- 1814, Henry William Weber, Robert Jamieson, Sir Walter Scott, Illustrations of northern antiquities:
- Hadubraht, the son of Hiltibrant, said, "Gladly gifts should be received; ord (spear's point) against ord.
Ord
Proper noun
- A city/county seat in Valley County, Nebraska.
- A civil parish/and/village in Northumberland, England
- (Ord River) A river in Western Australia
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