Brewer's: Bordlands

Lands kept by lords in Saxon times for the supply of their own board or table. (Anglo-Saxon, bord, a table.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Bordlode
Border States
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