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▪ I. † ˈgourder1 Obs.—1 [app. f. gourd2.] A flooding rain, a ‘spate’.
1565Harding Confut. Jewel's Apol. 195 Let the gourders of raine come downe from you and all other heretikes, let the floudes of worldly rages thrust. ▪ II. † ˈgourder2 ? Anglo-Irish. Obs. Identified by Pennant with the Stormy Petrel.
1756C. Smith Hist. Kerry 186 There is a small bird..called by the Irish, Gourder. [Description follows.] 1802in Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 222. |