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Definition of board

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Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..

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Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..

Footboard :: Footboard (n.) The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.

Rabbet :: Rabbet (v. t.) To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint..

Aboard :: Aboard (prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship..

Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..

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

Board :: 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..

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

Stowce :: Stowboard (n.) A place into which rubbish is put.

Pax :: Pax (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc..

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

Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..

Beaufet :: Beaufet (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet..

Ship :: Ship (v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war..

Shopboard :: Shopboard (n.) A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.

Checkerboard :: Checkerboard (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts..

Respondentia :: Respondentia (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself..

Footboard :: Footboard (n.) A treadle.

Shipboard :: Shipboard (n.) A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard..

Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.