Meaning of bordo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. board, plank used in ship making
   masculine
2. side, board
   masculine
3. edge, border, margin, hem, rim
   masculine

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Examples

“Conta a estoria que Pirio Neutóllamos, desque escapou da gram tormenta do mar et perdeu moytas das suas cõpañas, cõmo de suso oýstes, (et) fezo adubar suas naues en hũ lugar que chamã Amolese, que muyto lles era mester, ca nõ lles auía ficado naue sãa: as hũas auíã quebrantadas as áncoras, et as outras as uellas et os gouernallos, et as outras os rremos, et as outras os bordos en derredor”

The story tells that Pyrrhus Neoptolemus, because he has escaped the great storm of the sea and lost many of his troops, as you have already heard, ordered to repair his ships in a place called Amolese, because they really were in need of it, because they had not a single ship that were sound: ones had broken their anchors, others the sails and the helms, others the oars, and another ones the boards all around

“hũu bispo viindo da casa santa de Iherusalem en hũa naue, seendo cabo do bordo leendo en hũu liuro, vẽo hũa moy grãde onda et lançoo ẽno mar cõ outros que y andauã”

a bishop that was coming home from the holy house of Jerusalem in a ship, being by the board as he was reading a book, a large wave came and threw him into the sea with others that were around

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