Gourders

The value of your periodical in eliciting the explanation of crabbed archaisms is highly to be commended. Shall I anticipate Mr. Bolton Corney, or some other of your acute glossarial correspondents, if I offer another suggestion, in reply to "C.H." (No. 21. p. 335.), regarding "gourders of raine?" I have never met with the word in this form; but Gouldman gives "a gord of water which cometh by rain, *aquilegium*." Guort, gorz, or gort, in Domesday, are interpreted by Kelham as "a wear"; and in old French, *gort* or *gorz* signifies "*flot, gorgées, quantité*" (Roquefort). All these words, as we…