cupboardnoun/ˈkʌb.əd/

• 1

  obsoleteA board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet.

  • Cupboꝛde of plate or to ſette plate upon buffet z ma.
  • from the cobbarde byſyde owr dyninge table
• 2

  obsoleteThings displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate.

  • But howe comme to pas, / Your cupbord that was / Is tourned to glasse, / From syluere to brasse, / From golde to pewter, / Or els to a newter, / To copper, to tyn, / To lede, or alcumyn?
• 3

  A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.

  • Put the cups back into the cupboard.
  • Cupborde to putte meate in – dressover s, m.
• 4

  A closet for storing coats.

  • I hung the coat in the cupboard and bided my time.
• 5

  obsoleteThings stored in a cupboard; particularly food.

  • Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].

cupboardverb/ˈkʌb.əd/

• 1

  To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

  • There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]