Obs. An intermediate form between CARD and CHART, in the sense of ‘card, map, chart.’
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), Introd. p. xii. A Charde of the seaven sundry Kingdoms into the which this Realme was sometime divided.
1571. Digges, Pantom., III. x. R iii. Now ye must set the three diameters … vpon some charde, paper, or other playn.
1577–87. Harrison, in Holinshed, I. ii. 2. Dividing the latest and best chards each way into two equall parts.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm. (1669), 283/1. A Pilot without his Chard.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxiv. (1632), 1157/1. Throgmorton (for his part) had plotted a chard of the Hauens and Harbours of England.
