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born v NID ~ v2 'dial'; ADD 2. (a) To act as midwife;
to deliver; (b) to give birth to.
T 1-631 My sister was
a midwife. She borned over two thousand children, my sister. T 207-65 I've borned 'bout
300 of them myself. I took [up] nursing when I was thirty-seven year old an' I finished
when I was seventy. P 148-66 If they can't born them, they have a caesarean section. P
242-74 I don't know how she borned the child. 1972 MURRAY 68 'Borning babies' was women's
work. There might be a number of women around, but no man.
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