BOARD

Definitions

1. 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
2. 2. A table to put food upon.
3. 3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
4. 4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.
5. 5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
6. 6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
7. 7. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
8. 8. The border or side of anything. (Naut.)
9. 9. The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." Dryden. See On board, below.
10. 10. The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.