Definition of board

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Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board..

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Casting :: Casting (n.) The warping of a board.
Sorner :: Sorner (n.) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders..
Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard..
Scutum :: Scutum (n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry..
Manual :: Manual (a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys..
Tassel :: Tassel (n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States..
Vergeboard :: Vergeboard (n.) The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard..
Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards..
Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.
Seabord :: Seabord (n. & a.) See Seaboard.
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3..
Log-chip :: Log-chip (n.) A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2..
House :: House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece..
Underboard :: Underboard (adv.) Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard..
Dresser :: Dresser (v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..
Neck :: Neck (n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board..
Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke..
Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
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