Definition of board

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Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board..

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Lap :: Lap (n.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one..
Aboard :: Aboard (prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship..
Disship :: Disship (v. t.) To dismiss from service on board ship.
Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses..
Seam :: Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..
Stowce :: Stowboard (n.) A place into which rubbish is put.
Table :: Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
Smooth :: Smooth (a.) To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron..
City :: City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see..
Tongue :: Tongue (v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together..
Cupboard :: Cupboard (n.) A board or shelf for cups and dishes.
Card :: Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard..
Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel..
Embark :: Embark (v. i.) To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon..
Pinnywinkles :: Pinnywinkles (n. pl.) An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs..
Tabler :: Tabler (n.) One who boards.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise..
Thin :: Thin (superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering..
Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..
Starch :: Starblowlines (n. pl.) The men in the starboard watch.
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