boa'd

Verb

board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded)

1. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
   • It is time to board the aircraft.

   Antonyms:

   alight, deboard, disembark

2. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
   • to board one’s horse at a livery stable
3. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
   • We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)
4. (transitive) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
5. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
6. (archaic, transitive) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
   • Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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