Also 6 bryd. [f. prec.]
1. intr. To pursue birdcatching or fowling.
1576. Gascoigne, Steel Gl., Epil. Till they have caught the birds for whom they bryded.
1580. Baret, Alv., B 707. To birde, foule, or hauke.
† 2. To bird off: to ‘pick off’ with a musket, etc. (as a sportsman a bird). Obs. rare.
1700. Rycaut, Hist. Turks, iii. 151. Their Men wading over a marshy Ground … sticking in the Mire, were birded off and killed with Musquet-shot.
