boards

Noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
   • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
   • Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
4. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
   • We have to wait to hear back from the board.
5. (uncountable) Regular meals in a place of lodging; the price paid for them.
   • board and lodging
6. The side of a ship.
   • Now board to board the rival vessels row.1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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