dord
Noun
Meaning
dord (plural dords)
(music) A type of ancient Irish war-horn.
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Gove wrote that this was "probably too bad, for why shouldn't dord mean 'density'?"
In 1940, bound books began appearing without the ghost word but with a new abbreviation (although inspection of printed copies well into the 1940s show "dord" still present).
The entry "dord" was not removed until 1947.
The non-word "dord" was excised, and the definition of the adjacent entry " Doré furnace" was expanded from "A furnace for refining dore bullion " to "a furnace in which dore bullion is refined" to close up the space.