Definition of board

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Board (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc..

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Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking..
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..
Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon..
Cellaret :: Cellaret (n.) A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal..
Mouldboard :: Mouldboard (n.) A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing..
Tabler :: Tabler (n.) One who boards.
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts..
Starch :: Starblowlines (n. pl.) The men in the starboard watch.
Seaboard :: Seaboard (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town..
Dredger :: Dredger (n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box..
Embark :: Embark (v. i.) To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon..
Outboard :: Outboard (a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard..
Mount :: Mount (v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting..
Scupper :: Scupper (v.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole..
Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions..
Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.
Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board..
Davit :: Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit..
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