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Quotation dates: 1420, 1475-1513
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Our-burd(e, adv. Also: oure-. [sc. var. of Over-burd(e.] Over the side (of a ship or boat), overboard. — c1420 Wynt. vii. 2588.
Thai … in the se kest thame oure burde c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace x. 881.
A man he straik our-burd in-to the se 1513 Doug. v. xiv. 60.
Ourburd 1513 Ib. vi. v. 112.
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