† bord-and-cord Obs.
[perh. f. bord, board ‘side, border’, and cord.]
An obsolete game played with a ball by five on each side.
| 1591 in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. III. 117 In this square they (stript out of their dubletts) played, five to five, with the hand ball, at bord and cord (as they tearme it). |