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Board   /bɔrd/   Listen
noun
Board  n.  
1.
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, used for building, etc. Note: When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank.
2.
A table to put food upon. Note: The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. "Fruit of all kinds... She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand."
3.
Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
4.
A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. "Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board." "We may judge from their letters to the board."
5.
A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
6.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
7.
pl. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
8.
The border or side of anything. (Naut.)
(a)
The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." See On board, below.
(b)
The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. Note: Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure.
The American Board, a shortened form of "The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches).
Bed and board. See under Bed.
Board and board (Naut.), side by side.
Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies.
Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board.
Board of trade, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce.
Board wages.
(a)
Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages.
(b)
Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging.
(c)
A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging.
By the board, over the board, or side. "The mast went by the board." Hence (Fig.),
To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow.
To enter on the boards, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. (Cambridge, England.) "Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college."
To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward.
To make short boards, to tack frequently.
On board.
(a)
On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship.
(b)
In or into a railway car or train. (Colloq. U. S.)
Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. (U.S.)


verb
Board  v. t.  (past & past part. boarded; pres. part. boarding)  
1.
To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel."
2.
To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. "You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication."
3.
To enter, as a railway car. (Colloq. U. S.)
4.
To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
5.
To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.


Board  v. t.  To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. (Obs.) "I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack."


Board  v. i.  To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. "We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house."





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"Board" Quotes from Famous Books



... dogs down a lonely side lane to the village, and came to the shed where lay the uncomely thing he had called brother. He felt for a spot where there was a loose board, forced it and another with his strong fingers, and crawled in. Reappearing with the dead body, he bore it in his huge arms to the stoneboat: a midget carrying a giant. He covered up the face, and, returning to the shed, placed his coat against the boards to deaden the sound, and hammered ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... quarters, which the steward, under the first mate's supervision, was already setting in order; and, having decided to set up the wireless in the sleeping-room, von Staden accompanied the skipper round to superintend the taking on board of the wireless plant from the gasoline launch bobbing alongside. When the equipment was finally hoisted to the deck of the Narcissus, Michael J, Murphy boarded the launch and was whisked ashore for the avowed ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... George's, Southwark, the medical officer reports that scarlatina 'has raged fatally, almost exclusively where privy or drain, smells are to be perceived in the houses.'" [Footnote: Quarterly Report of the Board of Health upon Sickness in the Metropolis.] Let the children, who have not had, or who do not appear to be sickening for scarlet fever, be sent away from home—if to a farm house so much the better. Indeed, leave no stone unturned, no means untried, to exterminate the disease from ...
— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse
... mass-hackled priest and the words and the gestures of him, and see visions of far countries and outlandish folk, and some would be heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things which so oft the sea-beat board and the wind-strained pine bear with them to the dwellings of the stay-at-homes: and to some it seemed as if, when they went from out the church, they should fall in with St. Thomas of India stepping over the gangway, and come to visit their uplandish Christmas and the Yule-feast ...
— The Sundering Flood • William Morris
... need advice on handling men, I'll ask for it," he rapped out. Then, glancing at the Louis XIV clock: "Past the time for that C.P.S. board-meeting, Wally. No more of this, now. We'll talk it over at the Country Club, tonight; but for the present, let's dismiss it ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England


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