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Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise..

Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school..

Box :: Box (v. t.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form..

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

Timber :: Timber (n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding..

Brettice :: Brettice (n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

Cleading :: Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc..

Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc..

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

Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..

Headbeard :: Headbeard (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave..

Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons..

Poleaxe :: Poleaxe (n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel..

Stinkpot :: Stinkpot (n.) An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel..

Netting :: Netting (n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding..

Boarding :: Boarding (n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose..

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

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses..

Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..

Board :: Board (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house..

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