board
- Noun. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of sawn wood or similar material, usually intended for use in construction.
- Noun. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- Noun. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, etc.
- Noun. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a ''board of directors''.
- Noun. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- Noun. (nautical) The side of a ship.
- Noun. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- Noun. (basketball, slang) A rebound.
- Noun. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
- Noun. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
- Verb. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- Verb. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- Verb. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- Verb. (transitive) (nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
- Verb. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation.
- Verb. (transitive, now) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
- Verb. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
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