Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who boards, especially.
- noun One who pays a stipulated sum in return for regular meals or for meals and lodging.
- noun One who goes on board a vessel as part of an assault or military action.
- noun A person who rides a board, such as a snowboard or surfboard, as a sport.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who boards.
- noun plural On a man-of-war, the officers and men detailed to attack an enemy by boarding. They are armed with cutlases and pistols.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
- noun (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pupil who lives atschool duringterm time . - noun Someone who
pays formeals andlodging in ahouse rather than ahotel . - noun nautical A
sailor attacking anenemy ship byboarding her, or onerepelling suchattempts by an enemy. - noun Someone who uses a
snowboard
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tenant in someone's house
- noun a pupil who lives at school during term time
- noun someone who forces their way aboard ship
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Examples
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The only government that can secure the boarder is the Federal government.
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Conjecture: Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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I heard they sell temp insurance at the boarder, is this correct? thanks
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Conjecture: Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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Conjecture: Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
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Conjecture: Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights?
ruzuzu commented on the word boarder
"On a man-of-war, the officers and men detailed to attack an enemy by boarding. They are armed with cutlases and pistols." --CD
April 14, 2011