I'm Thinking of a Word that Rhymes with "NERD"

I'm, THinking of a Word that Rhymes with "NERD"

(though I think, as a Thackeray character pronounced it,
it rhymed with "lard".)

My answer is much too obvious for Roland; whatever, I thought I'd start it off just for fun.

A bunch of cattle in Great Britain, being driven or guided by a member of royalty (as unlikely as that seems), one of the cattle with a feathered, winged creature on his back. (A three-fer)

Are X-fers fair play? Not a clue, just asking...

I was thinking of using a
homonym of "herd" (2): (heard) for the "Rhymes With" word, but that's as close as you got to the Crambo! Word.

"Are X-fers fair play?" (2)

Probably, but it depends on what
X-fers are (!?)

Any of four words that indicate a compass-based direction of travel?

The Crambo! Word* doesn't indicate a direction -- more a situation that some of us often find ourselves to be in.
My minimal knowledge of
compass-based directions doesn't supply me with any
Nerd-Rhyming word.

My words are constructed using the four points of the compass and the same suffix that Paul Simon used in 1966 or so to tell us where he wished he was bound.

#3 "X-fers" translate into X number of guesses within one message. For example, #2 above is noted as a "three-fer", since it has three guesses or clues in that one message.

Without my slangy notation as a "three-fer," it might be more recognizable as a "three for one."

2, 7

Q. Are X-fers fair play?

A. THe short answer is: I don't know.
The long answer is: I was under the impression -- just taking it for granted, really -- that we're limited to one guess per post. Don't know of anything spelled out in the rules.

". . .where (Paul Simon) wished he was bound. . ." (6)

I don't have access to the 1966 quote (in fact, for a minute, I thought you were talking about an economist!)
but I can give the hint: that it doesn't end in "-ward".

That's what I was getting at, Roland (eastward, etc.). In case you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6K8wfyzAJQ

New guess: the type of theater that Ionesco, Pinter, et al. created?

YES, Jim! the "Absurd" of Pinter, Ionesco, et al. is the
Crambo! Word,

Please take over.

Come save me from myself over here.