board
/boɹd/ verb B1- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance. · It is time to board the aircraft.
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money. · to board one’s horse at a livery stable
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To cover with boards or boarding. · to board a house
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
He/she/it boards · Past boarded · Past participle boarded · -ing form boarding
Verb forms
- Base form
- board
- He/she/it
- boards
- Past
- boarded
- Past participle
- boarded
- -ing form
- boarding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Château d’If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgiou and Rion island.
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
The prisoner himself is named Edmond Dantès, mate on board the three-master the Pharaon, trading in cotton with Alexandria and Smyrna, and belonging to Morrel & Son, of Marseilles.”
When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship’s bulwarks.
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