Obs. Thieves’ cant. [? a transf. use of bord, BOARD ‘shield.’] A shilling.
1567. Harman, Caveat, 85. Bouse there a bord, drinke there a shyllinge.
1611. Dekker, Roar. Girle, Wks. 1873, III. 219. My Lord Noland … bestowes vpon you two, two boordes and a halfe.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. § 68 (Cant Voc.). Borde, a shilling. Half a Borde, six-pence.
