Dictionary Entry

boards

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/bɔːdz/Used In Literature ↓

A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.

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Common Phrases

. boardsboards schoolboards bulletinboards localboards circuitboards stateboards cloth

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Poetry examples for “boards”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And many more, which hastily subscribed,
We enter’d on the boards : and “ Now,” she eried, 60

Upon the crumbling boards the snow
Has drifted deep, the clappers hang

In ^vo, price 125. in boards.
*< This Volume opens to us some new and important sources of

of a strawpile and the running wheat of the wagon-
boards, my cornhuskers, my harvest hands hauling
crops, singing dreams of women, worlds, horizons?

Iremember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly,
and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had

I heerd him there on Gordon's Ridge;
I heerd the loose boards bump and rattle
When he went over Houghton's Bridge."

Pluck up its stakes, and disappear --
Without the sound of Boards
Or Rip of Nail -- Or Carpenter --

Think not, when fire was bright upon my bricks,
And past the tight boards hardly a wind could enter,
I glowed like them, the simple burning sticks,

Think not, when fire was bright upon my bricks,
And past the tight boards hardly a wind could enter,
I glowed like them the simple burning sticks,

Into a cider press's gripe; 130
And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards,
And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards,