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noun

Boarding n.

(Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. "Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate."

The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.

Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept.

Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it.

Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it.

Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.

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"Boarding" Quotes from Famous Books

... can't! There seems to be nothing for me but to go back North, and try to earn something to start on. I guess it'd be well for me to take Lola along. She's nearly grown now, and they need help the worst kind in the miners' boarding-house where I stay up in Cripple. I told the folks that keep it—I owe 'em considerable—that I'd bring back my daughter with me to assist 'em in the dining-room, and they said all right, that'd suit 'em. Wages up there are about the highest thing in sight. Equal ...

— A Prairie Infanta • Eva Wilder Brodhead

... from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the thing—though in truth he was entirely so, concerning the precise way in which to manage the barrow—Queequeg puts his chest upon it; lashes it fast; and then shoulders the barrow and ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... how is your business progressing, Timothy? Kenneth wrote me about it. Don't be ashamed of it. Don't be ashamed of honest labor, young man.—You are boarding dogs, I believe. ...

— Class of '29 • Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings

... In spite of this, however, they have not attracted the kind of tenant they were intended for. Many of them have apartments to let. The house we have to do with is No. 7. The even numbers are on one side of the road, the odd on the other. No. 5 is a boarding-house of a very respectable kind, frequented by young fellows in business chiefly. No. 9 is occupied by a man who, after retiring from business comparatively wealthy, had financial losses. His four daughters have had to go out and work. I mention these facts to show that the surroundings ...

— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner

... the streets of this thriving Western town, ultimately boarding an electric car—with a shrewd eye out for the hellhounds of the law; and the car took them to the beginning of the frontier, where they found the trackless forest. They reached the depths of this ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

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