bairds

"Och, so it's bairds ye're after," said the fisherman.

The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948

now ti, let's not stray into that field. as ugly and stupid as the bairds might be they have every right to live out their natural lives resplendent in their ugliness and stupidity. let's not be calling for shootings, rhetorical or otherwise, please.

Baird Generates More Hot Air Lindsay Stewart 2008

Oi seen the mean wan wuz left-handed or let on he wuz, but when he reached out fur the bottle he had on'y three fingers on his right, an 'they both av them had the biggest, blackest, awfulest lukin' bairds -- I'd know them two bairds agin ony place -- an 'the littlest had a rag round his head, said he had a toothache, but shure yer teeth don't ache in the roots o' yer haiyer.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

"Wasting a fine boat like that yon, looking for bairds.

The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948