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Furd(e, Fuird, n. Also: ford(e, fwrde, fwirde, fuyrd, foord(e. [ME. furd, foord, ford, OE. ford.] A ford in a river: a. In the names of particular fords.(a) 1147–60 Liber Calchou 78.
De illuc ad Theuisford … et sic ad longum nigrum ford, & ita ut via iacet usque Crosseford a 1206 Ib. 202.
Versus boream usque Fuleforde 1221 Rec. Kinloss Mon. 113.
Per rivulum … usque ad vadum quod dicitur Blakeford 1240 Inchcolm Chart. 18.
Et de illa cruce sicut illud mater syketh cadit in Rereford c 1320 Reg. Great S. (1814) 15/1.
De capite eiusdem riuuli descendendo … vsque Chernesford(b) 1240 Inchcolm Chart. 18.
Per rivolum qui cadit de Rerefurd 1325 Coll. Aberd. & B. 197.
Sic ambulando … quousque peruenerunt apud le Stanyfurd 1411 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 95.
Integras terras … de Crukitfurde 1468 Peebles B. Rec. 158.
[To] lay vi laid of stanis at the kow fwrd 1491 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 62.
The commone wennell descendand to the Freir Furde 1531 Ayr Charters 103.
In quodam vado antedicte aque vulgariter nuncupate ly Stob akyr furde 1578 Aberd. Chart. 340.
At the northt syd of the Wayne Furd 1611 Reg. Panmure I. xcix.
Then be east lyes the Greine Furd(c) 1476 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 101.
His half fisching of the Crukyt Fuyrd on the wattyr of Ythane 1529 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 395.
Abuf the Kyngis fuird as the commond gait gangis 1624 Annals Banff I. 53.
At the port narrest the Kingisfuird(d) 1677 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 38.
Beginning at Macherfoord on the said water and ascending … to Seggiefoord

b. In general use.(a) c1420 Wynt. viii. 3475.
Ane met thame in the forde, That prewaly wyth-owtyn worde Led thame wp by the wattyr syne(b) 1375 Barb. vi. 79.
He fand na furd that men mycht pas Bot quhar hymself our passit was Ib. viii. 56.
Sum in the furde thai bakward bare c1420 Wynt. iii. 74.
All the furdys … Off that wattyr he kepyde swa Ib. iv. 442.
Scho gert bath bryg and fwrde be hale 1455 Acts II. 44/1.
A baill to be maide be the waukaris of the furdis quhar it may be sene at Hvme c1475 Wall. v. 168.
At syndry furdis the gait thai umbeset 1513 Doug. ix. xi. 16.
Als thik as the hail schour hoppys and dyngis In furdys schald 1555 Melrose R. Rec. III. 224.
Fra the standand stane down the syk to the middis of the furd of Helden 1560 Rolland Seven S. 5817.
Euin as ȝe find the furde sa ruse it 1596 Dalr. I. 43/3.
The fishe esilie cumis in over the damis and furdes 1604 Stirling B. Rec. I. 110.
That the furde at the bak of the abbay … be red and clenget of the stanes that lyis thairintill 1623 Crim. Trials III. 557.
At the furde, … he thair wusche the sarkattrib. c1475 Wall. vii. 488.
In the furd weill, that was bath wan and depe, Feyll off thaim fell(c) 1491 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 325.
De firma … piscationis mee de le fuyrdis aque de Dee 1545 Reg. Episc. Morav. 398.
To the strype that cummis of the fuyrd at the Kirkstill c1590 Fowler I. 128/67.
The fwirde [It. guado] of this sharp raging flood 1603 Lanark B. Rec. 113.
To cast na kynd of dovattis on … the said holme anist the fuird 1637 Rec. Elgin I. 256.
Alexander Gilyeau … dischargit … fra laying ony middingis in the fuird of Tayok(d) a1598 Fergusson Prov. (1641) 17 b.
Ruse the foord as ye finde it 1746 J. Row Sermon 8.
When ye come to a foord, the jackman must venter over first upon his weak weary naig 1665 Lamont Diary 179.
The sea was in above the ordinar foorde a1686 Turner Mem. 63.
The Duke … got into Preston toune, with intention to passe a foorde below it 1715 Coll. Aberd. & B. 35.
Thereby its foords [are] more dangerous after rains