Definition of board

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Board (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel..

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Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..
Purser :: Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster..
Templet :: Templet (n.) A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet..
Checkwork :: Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Keyboard :: Keyboard (n.) The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc..
Crimper :: Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
Palette :: Palette (n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments..
Starch :: Starblowlines (n. pl.) The men in the starboard watch.
Easement :: Easement (n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc..
Murderer :: Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece..
Paint :: Paint (v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc..
Sound-board :: Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board.
Point :: Point (n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
Harmonium :: Harmonium (n.) A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops..
Eat :: Eat (v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board..
Staging :: Staging (n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building..
Reembark :: Reembark (v. t. & i.) To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again..
Footboard :: Footboard (n.) The foot-rest of a coachman's box.
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..
Millboard :: Millboard (n.) A kind of stout pasteboard.
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