A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
A rebound.
The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
The side of a ship.
A level or stage having a particular layout.
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
To cover with boards or boarding.
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
Antonyms: alight, disembark
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.