boarden

From Middle English borden, bordyn, burden, equivalent to board +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”).

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən

boarden (not comparable)

1. Made of boards or wood; wooden
   • 1812, William Steel Dickson, A narrative of the confinement and exile of William Steel Dickson:

     After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor.

   • 1913, Report & Transactions, volumes 45-46, page 79:

     A domestic servant, native of North Devon, said: “There's a boarden box up there.”

   • 1972, Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William Matthews, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1666, page 177:

     And after dinner, by water to White-hall and there waited, till the Council rose, in the boarden gallery.

   • 2005, Peadar O'Donnell, Islanders, page 45:

     Biddy nodded. 'I see Mickey's wans are puttin' in a boarden floor in the room,' she said.

• Aberdon, Broaden, bandore, broaden