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Definition of board : 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, - used for building, etc.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A table to put food upon.
5. 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.
6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
7. The border or side of anything.
8. The side of a ship.
9. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
10. The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
11. To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
12. To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
13. To enter, as a railway car.
14. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
15. To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
16. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
17. To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

Synonyms:

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circuit court, bar, supreme court, court of law, session, court-martial, bench, judicature, court, appellate court, tribunal

conference, legislature, forum, congress, assembly, inquisition, council, congregation, chamber, caucus, quorum, panel, league, symposium, cabinet, coalition, convention, committee, meeting, summit, parliament, cadre, body, faction

fairly, equally, impartially

breakfast, consumption, meat, eating, drink, feast, barbecue, food, foodstuff, picnic, taste, grub, dinner, nutriment, ingestion, fare, spread, cuisine, lunch, morsel, repast, snack, sustenance, meal, banquet, feed, bread

provision, reinforce, deployment, cater, supply, endow, grant, dispensation, donate, contribution, deploy, clothe, deliver, delivery, sell, reload, dispense, replenish, contribute, endowment, donation, provide, replenishment

Usage examples:

• By this time Tip was at the board. - "Tip Lewis and His Lamp", Pansy.
• There ain't any blame comin' to you- you were above- board all through." - "The Turmoil A Novel", Booth Tarkington.
• I told Courtenay it was quite useless to place him on board the boat. - "The Captain of the Kansas", Louis Tracy.