Ord

"[...] 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!"

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

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 .

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

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

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