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List :: List (v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board..

Entrain :: Entrain (v. i.) To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station..

Flashboard :: Flashboard (n.) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard..

Headbeard :: Headbeard (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave..

Larboard :: Larboard (n.) The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard.

Coop :: Coop (n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

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.].

Larboard :: Larboard (a.) On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter..

Buckboard :: Buckboard (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon..

Ship :: Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen..

Kedge :: Kedge (n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it..

Staging :: Staging (n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building..

Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction..

Pension :: Pension (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc..

Dresser :: Dresser (v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.

Embarkation :: Embarkation (n.) The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops..

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..

Millboard :: Millboard (n.) A kind of stout pasteboard.

Boarding :: Boarding (n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose..

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