Board

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

We have to wait to hear back from the board.

board and lodging

room and board

His board was served by his landlady, the owner of the boarding house. [meals]

His board seemed a bit steep, but he accepted it because the house was clean and his fellow lodgers were respectful neighbors. [price for meals]

Now board to board the rival vessels row.

Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand.

1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481. The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board.

"A man," added Cripps, pointing at the MacQuibble, who took no manner of notice, but smoked impassively, "who comes to my hospitable board meanly disguised as an artist, and filches the table wine."

“Take your seat at my board, and let me drink to your health.”

Túrin took a seat without heed, for he was wayworn, and filled with thought; and by ill-luck he set himself at a board among the elders of the realm, and in that place where Saeros was accustomed to sit.

to bind a book in boards

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.

It is time to board the aircraft.

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

Yuan-chu-min history, that of the island’s southern Min speaking Han Chinese, is in evidence farther east, in Nan-t'ou county. After reaching the heart of Nan-t'ou' city, the county’s center of government and also home to Taiwan’s provincial government, one can board a bus to ascend the mountains that dominate much of the central and eastern landscape of the island.

I have just enough time for a "swifty" in the reopened (but on this day just about to close) '301' bar on Platform 4 before boarding a two-car Northern Class 158 working the 1824 to Leeds.

to board one’s horse at a livery stable

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

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

to board a house

the boarded hovel