Definition of "bourd"

bourd

noun
plural bourds
1. (obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
  Quotations
  The wisard could no lenger beare her bord, But brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd; Glauce, what needs this colourable word […] ?
  1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii
verb
third-person singular simple present bourds, present participle bourding, simple past and past participle bourded
1. (obsolete) To jest.
  Quotations
  "Brethren," quoth he, "take keep what I shall say;My wit is great, though that I bourde and play."
  14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales‎, page 138; collected in D. Laing Purves, editor, The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene, with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser, 1870