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

Tailboard :: Tailboard (n.) The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading..

Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) Boards adapted or intended for such use.

Footplate :: Footplate (n.) See Footboard (a).

Plank :: Plank (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer..

Bordland :: Bordland (n.) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table..

Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny..

Sheathe :: Sheathe (v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper..

Peg :: Peg (n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

Guidepost :: Guidepost (n.) A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers..

Krooman :: Krooman (n.) One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard..

Abovedeck :: Abovedeck (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice..

Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) The float of a paddle wheel.

Register :: Register (n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title..

Table :: Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.

Batule :: Batule (n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

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..

Alderman :: Alderman (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction..

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..

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