Search:boarding -> BOARDING
boarding
b o a r d i n g hex:#98;#111;#97;#114;#100;#105;#110;#103;
The Salt of the World?
- Boarding - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Board
- Boarding - n. - The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
- Boarding - n. - The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
- Boarding - n. - The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
- Cleading - n. - The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
- Dormitory - n. - A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
- Half-pike - n. - A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
- Brettice - n. - The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.
- Siding - n. - The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
- Headbeard - n. - A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
- Pension - n. - A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
- Commons - n. pl. - A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.
- Stinkpot - n. - An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.
- Wainscot - n. - A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
- Poleaxe - n. - Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.
strongscsv:description