boards
/boɹdz/ noun C2- A stage (as in a theater).
- Structure around a rink for ice hockey.
- A hardcover binding on a book. · His new novel just came out in boards. The paperback will follow in about a year.
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We had taken the precaution of leaving our boots behind us, but, even so, the old boards snapped and creaked beneath our tread.
With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.
At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
We have great big stones, all covered with moss, for seats, and boards from tree to tree for shelves.
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