Obs. [Contracted form of bullward, or perhaps rather of bull-herd; cf. cow-herd, neat-herd, and bearard for BEARHERD.] One who keeps a bull, or who takes part in bull-running. Cf. Bull-run s.v. BULL sb.1 11.
1825. Lowe, in Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1484. Every bullard [at Stamford] … ought to drink on that day.
1830. Champion of East, 12 Jan., 14. The bullards of Stamford intended yesterday … to have had another day’s sport.
1864. Chambers, Bk. of Days, 13 Nov., II. 574/2. The bullards, a name given to the admirers and supporters of bull-running [at Stamford].
