Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Specifically said of a card that is played and cannot be taken back.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of board.

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Examples

  • Here, they again boarded a steam train to continue their trip to San Francisco.

    Bringing in the New Years' With Steam Heather McDougal 2008

  • Sunlight peeked through cracks in boarded up windows.

    An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber 2008

  • Here, they again boarded a steam train to continue their trip to San Francisco.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Henriques and Hein boarded Spanish ships off Cuba and seized shipments of New World gold and silver worth in today's dollars about the same as Disney's total box office for "Dead Man's Chest."

    Oy Vey ... I Mean Arrrgh! 2006

  • Tarp still covers the roof; the windows remain boarded up.

    July 2006 2006

  • We again boarded the little steamer which had awaited our return to her decks; and when we were comfortably settled, she steamed away up the river.

    Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen 1898

  • The rays of the sun were beating fiercely down when the travelers again boarded the tram car.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • At the time it seemed as if the Three Legged Cross was just going to be another one of those long-term boarded up pubs you see all too frequently these days.

    getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed 2009

  • At the time it seemed as if the Three Legged Cross was just going to be another one of those long-term boarded up pubs you see all too frequently these days.

    getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed 2009

  • The ship hadn’t moved since she’d boarded, which is to say, the ship hadn’t made forward progress, for it pitched and rolled on the water like an out-of-control roller coaster at an amusement park.

    Aching for Always Gwyn Cready 2010

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