board
Definition of board:
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
A broad and thin strip of timber: a table to put food on: food: a table round which persons meet for some kind of business: any council or authorized body of men, as a school board: the deck of a ship. - ON BOARD, in U. S., same as ABROAD.
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part of speech: noun
A slab, or flat piece of wood sawn from a log; a table; food or diet; a council, or meeting of managers convened for business; the deck of a ship.
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part of speech: verb
To cover with flat pieces of wood; to enter a ship by force; to furnish with food and lodging for a price.
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Common misspellings:
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- baord (26.6%)
- borad (22.4%)
- boart (0.2%)
- borded (0.2%)
- boward (0.2%)
- pannal (0.2%)
- bosrd (0.2%)
- biard (0.3%)
- bord (28.2%)
- broard (0.2%)
- boad (8.7%)
- borde (0.2%)
- boared (5.1%)
- boader (0.3%)
- borard (0.5%)
- commity (0.2%)
- boardf (0.3%)
- boardd (0.7%)
- bourd (2.9%)
- becasue (0.2%)
- oard (0.3%)
- boeard (0.3%)
- brd (0.5%)
- bulletinboard (0.3%)
- aborad (0.2%)
- boiard (0.7%)
Usage examples for board:
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The school was very like a Board School in England.
"A Dominie in Doubt" – A. S. Neill -
It will start for Hunston to- morrow afternoon, with me on board
"Captivating Mary Carstairs" – Henry Sydnor Harrison -
I'll see you on board won't I?
"John Marsh's Millions" – Charles Klein Arthur Hornblow -
At what time do you think you will get on board of the steamer?
"Within The Enemy's Lines SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat" – Oliver Optic
