board

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From backboard.

1. A rebound.

verb

Etymology: A wooden board Board (duplicate bridge) From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰeti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰeti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table." Cognates Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bord (“plank; table”), Elfdalian buord (“table”), Faroese and Icelandic borð (“board, plank; table”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (*baurd, “board, plank”) (whence 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd, “footstool”).

1. To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

   “It is time to board the aircraft.”

   “You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.”

2. To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.

   “to board one’s horse at a livery stable”

3. To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.

   “We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,”

4. To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
5. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
6. To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.

   “Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]”

7. To cover with boards or boarding.

   “to board a house”

   “the boarded hovel”

8. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
9. To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.