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boarden

boarden adjective: made of boards or wood; wooden.

Adjective

boarden (not comparable)

  1. Made of boards or wood; wooden
    • After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor.1812, William Steel Dickson, A narrative of the confinement and exile of William Steel Dickson
    • A domestic servant, native of North Devon, said: “There's a boarden box up there.”1913, Report & Transactions, volumes 45-46, page 79

Examples of boarden in a sentence

  • And after dinner, by water to White-hall and there waited, till the Council rose, in the boarden gallery.1972, Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William Matthews, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1666, page 177:
  • 'I see Mickey's wans are puttin' in a boarden floor in the room,' she said.2005, Peadar O'Donnell, Islanders, page 45:

Origin of boarden

From Middle English borden, bordyn, burden, equivalent to board + -en (“made or consisting of”).

Words that rhyme with boarden

Questions about boarden

What does boarden mean?
Boarden means made of boards or wood; wooden.
How do you use boarden in a sentence?
And after dinner, by water to White-hall and there waited, till the Council rose, in the boarden gallery.
What part of speech is boarden?
Boarden is an adjective.

Words near boarden in the dictionary

  1. boardcard
  2. boardcards
  3. boarded
  4. boarded out
  5. boarded up
  6. boarden
  7. boarder
  8. boarder babies
  9. boarder baby
  10. boarder cross
  11. boarder X

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