▪ I. boarder
(ˈbɔədə(r))
Forms: 6–7 boorder, 6 bourder, Sc. buirdir, 7 border, 7– boarder.
[f. board v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who boards, or has his food, or food and lodging, at the house of another for compensation; one who lives in a boarding-house or with a family as one of its members, at a fixed rate. Spec. a boy who boards and lodges at a school, as distinguished from the day-boy who comes and goes daily, and the day-boarder who remains at school for dinner, but goes home at night.
| 1530 Palsgr. 199/2 Boorder that gothe to borde, commensal. 1576 Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 43 Some Schoole-masters..pinch their poore Pupils and Boorders by the belly. 1620 R. Seton Hist. M. & S. Rep. Eglinton Papers (1885) No. 128. 45 Hes preceis price of his buirdirs sitting at tabill is tuo hunder merk. 1740 J. Clarke Educ. Youth 190 A Boarding-school, where none but Boarders are received. 1882 J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xiv, This..woman..did not pretend to know who those boarders of hers really were. |
b. A horse that is put up and fed. (Cf. board v. 8 b.)
| 1806 Sir W. Scott Let. 11 Aug. (1932) I. 314, I wish I could promise to add to your convenience by accommodating the boarder, but our grass has been so scanty that we could not do him justice. 1903 N.Y. Tribune 20 Sept., (Advt.), Boarders wanted at Rochville Boarding Stable. |
2. One who boards (an enemy's) ship.
| 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) F iij b, If the boarder is repulsed. 1797 Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 41 Calling for the boarders, [I] ordered them to board. 1862 Thornbury Turner I. 337 The French..closing their lowerdeck port, for fear of the boarders. |
3. One who puts the boards on books.
| 1882 Daily News 28 Dec. 5/2 ‘Boarders’, or they who ‘board’ books, stitchers, and other toilers. |
▸ orig. U.S. A participant in a sport or activity that involves riding on a board; esp. a skateboarder or a snowboarder.
| 1976 Newsweek 21 June 56 For some, skateboards are simply a cheap mode of transportation. Emery Air Freight in Los Angeles has hired two agile boarders to deliver small packages. 1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Nov. H7 [Skateboarders] line up for a one-at-a-time flight on the ramps. Lines move fast—about one boarder per minute. 1990 Snow Boarder Sept. 33/1 Truth is, all the forces, from the eye-tearing speed to a 35-degree pitch to the friction of P-tex and steel on heavy snow, were creating a powerful batch of physics for the boarder to work with. 1997 Indianapolis Star 20 July c11/1 Last year's wakeboarding tour champion..returned to championship form Saturday... The 15-year-old boarder captured the expression session title, narrowly edging defending tour expression champ Shaun Murray. 2001 Vanity Fair June 208 [He] lobbies local ski areas to let boarders on their chairlifts. |
▪ II. boarder
var. of bourder Obs. a jouster.