Also 6 backbord, -boarde, 9 -buird (all in north. dial., to which the word is confined.) [f. BAKE v. + BOARD.] A board on which dough is kneaded and rolled out in making bread; a paste-board.

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1562.  Richmond. Wills (1853), 156. Item iij chayres, stolles, and cardstocks, iijs … backbords, xijd.

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1563.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 169. A kneadinge bassyn, a knoppe, a gielfatte, a backbourde.

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1808.  Cumbrian Ball., liv. 122. As flat as a back-buird.

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1878.  in Halliwell.

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