Definition of board

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Board (n.) 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..

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Plane :: Plane (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank..
Board :: Board (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals..
Board :: Board (n.) The border or side of anything.
Log-chip :: Log-chip (n.) A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2..
See :: See (v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars..
Casting :: Casting (n.) The warping of a board.
Seaboard :: Seaboard (n.) The seashore; seacoast.
Sheathing :: Sheathing (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general..
Berth :: Berth (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company..
Plough :: Plough (n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc..
Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..
Call :: Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen..
Carton :: Carton (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
Furring :: Furring (n.) The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3..
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them..
Reship :: Reship (v. i.) To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.
Bargeboard :: Bargeboard (n.) A vergeboard.
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem..
Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured..
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