Definition of boarding

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Boarding (n.) The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay..

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Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school..
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..
Half-pike :: Half-pike (n.) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon..
Stinkpot :: Stinkpot (n.) An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel..
Livery :: Livery (n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery..
Boarding :: Boarding (n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose..
Poleaxe :: Poleaxe (n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel..
Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) Oaken timber or boarding.
Board :: Board (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house..
Boarding :: Boarding (n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards..
Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc..
Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..
Brettice :: Brettice (n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise..
Netting :: Netting (n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding..
Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.
Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..
Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) Boards adapted or intended for such use.
Boarding :: Boarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boar.
Pension :: Pension (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc..
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