Boarden

After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor.

A domestic servant, native of North Devon, said: “There's a boarden box up there.”

And after dinner, by water to White-hall and there waited, till the Council rose, in the boarden gallery.

Biddy nodded. 'I see Mickey's wans are puttin' in a boarden floor in the room,' she said.