Brewer's: Bordarii

or Bordmen. A class of agriculturists superior to the Villani, who paid their rent by supplying the lord's board with eggs and poultry. (Domesday Book.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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