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Aboveboard :: Aboveboard (adv.) Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception..

Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..

Shook :: Shook (n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.

Card :: Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard..

Marine :: Marine (a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.

Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.

Bridgeboard :: Bridgeboard (n.) A board or plank used as a bridge.

Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..

Siding :: Siding (n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like..

Larboard :: Larboard (n.) The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard.

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board..

Cupboard :: Cupboard (v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard..

Boarding :: Boarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boar.

Rough :: Rough (n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth..

Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..

Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer..

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard..

Centerboard :: Centerboard (n.) Alt. of Centreboar.

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