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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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Candlebomb :: Candlebomb (n.) A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.

Board :: Board (n.) To enter, as a railway car..

Panel :: Panel (n.) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door..

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..

Slipboard :: Slipboard (n.) A board sliding in grooves.

Common :: Common (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Cupboard :: Cupboard (n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet..

Staging :: Staging (n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building..

Pinnywinkles :: Pinnywinkles (n. pl.) An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs..

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Key :: Key (n.) The last board of a floor when laid down.

Plank :: Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board..

Ticket :: Ticket (v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something..

Sheeting :: Sheeting (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

Notchboard :: Notchboard (n.) The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.

Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard..

Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..

Pasteboard :: Pasteboard (n.) A board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding board.

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

Half-pike :: Half-pike (n.) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon..