Definition of "sord"

sord¹

/sɔː(ɹ)d/

noun
plural sords
1. (rare, obsolete) A flock of mallards.
  Quotations
  "Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."
  1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3

sord²

/sɔː(ɹ)d/

noun
plural sords
1. Obsolete form of sward.
  Quotations
  grassy Sord
  1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,