ord

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of order.
2. abbreviationlawAbbreviation of ordinance.
3. abbreviationclippinginformalbusinessClipping of ordinary share.

plural ords · alternative orde

1. UKdialectalA point.
2. UKdialectalA point of origin; a beginning.

   [...] Tell me wholly as it was From ord to end how it did pass When first your father was of me ware.

   1924, Adriaan Jacob Barnouw Esmoreit, An ingenious play of Esmoreit: the king's son of Sicily

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   "[...] But such is life — hard upon hard from ord to end; and if I had not been made of the best of neat-leather, the longer in water the tougher, I would have melted away with my tears long ago!"

   1897, Frank Cowan, The millionaire

3. UKdialectalA point of land; a promontory.

   When a man came from Sutherland into Caithness over the Ord [of Caithness, in the southern tip of the county], he was called an ord-louper .

   1900, Cai.

4. UKdialectalThe point or edge of a weapon.

   And touched him with the spear's ord. — Romance of Sir Otuel.

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   Saul drew his sword, And ran even upon the ord. — Cursor Mundi.

   Hadubraht, the son of Hiltibrant, said, "Gladly gifts should be received; ord (spear's point) against ord.

   1814, Henry William Weber, Robert Jamieson, Sir Walter Scott, Illustrations of northern antiquities

1. A surname.
2. A city, the county seat of Valley County, Nebraska, United States.
3. Two townships in Nebraska, in Antelope County and Valley County.
4. A civil parish in north Northumberland, England, that includes the settlements of East Ord, Middle Ord, Ord Mains, South Ord and West Ord.
5. A hamlet near Tarskavaig, Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG6113). From Scottish Gaelic An t-Òrd.
6. A settlement next to Invergordon, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7170).
7. Ord RiverA river in Western Australia.

plural ORDs

1. SingaporeabbreviationgovernmentAbbreviation of operationally ready date, the date when a national serviceman finishes his service.