Board

bōrd, n. a broad and thin strip of timber: a table to put food on: food: a table round which persons meet for some kind of busine : any council or authorised body of men, as a 'school-board:' the deck of a ship: ( pl. ) the stage: a kind of thick stiff paper, as in pasteboard, Bristol-board, esp. that used in the binding of books.— v.t. to cover with boards: to supply with food at fixed terms: to enter a ship: to attack.— v.i. to receive food or take meals.— ns. Board′er , one who receives board (food): one who boards a ship; Board′ing , the act of covering with boards: the covering itself: act of boarding a ship; Board′ing-house , a house where boarders are kept; Board′ing-pike , a pike used in boarding a ship, or in defending it when attacked; Board′ing-school , a school in which board is given as well as instruction; Board′-school , a school under control of a school-board, as elected by the Elementary Education Act of 1870.— n.pl. Board′-wā′ges , wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in food.— Above board , openly.— By the board , over the board or side of a ship—hence, To go by the board , to be lost or destroyed.— To sweep the board , to take all the cards. [A.S. bord , a board, the side of a ship; Ice. borð , the side of a ship: conn. either with Bear or with Broad .]