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▪ I. † chard1, charde Obs. An intermediate form between card and chart, in the sense of ‘card, map, chart’.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) Introd. 12 A Charde of the seaven sundry Kingdoms into the which this Realme was sometime divided. 1571Digges Pantom. iii. x. R iii, Now ye must set the three diameters..vpon some charde, paper, or other playn. 1577–87Harrison in Holinshed I. ii. 2 Dividing the latest and best chards each way into two equall parts. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 283/1 A Pilot without his Chard. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1177 Throgmorton had plotted a chard of the Hauens and Harbours of England. ▪ II. chard2|tʃɑːd| [var. of card n.3 (Cf. F. chardon thistle.)] = card n.3 Hence chard-beet.
1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 160 To procure the chard of artichoks. 1664― Kal. Hort. (1729) 195 Transplant the Beet-chard which you sowed in August, to have most ample Chards. 1693― De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 142 Chard-Beets..that in the middle have a large white, and thick downy Cotton-like Main shoot, and that downy Cotton-like shoot is the true Chard used in Pottages. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 252 The footstalks and midribs of the leaves [of white beet]..are stewed and eaten under the name of Swiss chard. 1866Treas. Bot. i. 372 The Chard of Artichokes, or the tender central leaf-stalk blanched. |