Word Meaning

Meaning of boards

- A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
- A table to put food upon.
- Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
- A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
- A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
- The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
- The border or side of anything.
- The side of a ship.
- The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
- To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
- To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
- To enter, as a railway car.
- To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
- To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
- To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

Crossword clue for boards

- A company’s directors
- Committee
- Committee sounds fed-up
- Committee uninterested, I hear
- Directorate
- Draughts or Scrabble, ... game
- Get on plane with committee
- Governing body
- Legitimate, above ...
- Monopoly or Scrabble, ... game
- Piece of thin timber
- Piece of wood
- Plank
- Plank of wood
- Reportedly drilled into company’s top brass
- Act, tread the ...
- Has lodgings