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Point :: Point (n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.

Fret :: Fret (n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed..

Bord :: Bord (n.) A board; a table.

Plank :: Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board..

Check :: Check (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure..

Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon..

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Direction :: Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow..

Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..

Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard..

House :: House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Livery :: Livery (n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery..

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove..

Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard..

Tip :: Tip (n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf..

Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.

Dasher :: Dasher (n.) A dashboard or splashboard.

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