单词 | boarder |
释义 | boardern. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > entertainment with food > boarder boarder1530 table-boarder1845 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger boarder1530 inmake1536 inmate1589 quarterer1595 commoner1598 tabler1598 by-settel1612 lodgera1616 inquilinea1641 pensioner1673 pensionnairea1794 Artful Dodger1839 paying guest1853 roomer1859 star boarder1875 pension-boarder1898 latchkey1905 PG1925 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > boarder boarder1530 parlour boarder1768 weekly boarder1800 resident1843 ressie1982 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/2 Boorder that gothe to borde, commensal. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. iv. f. 27 Some Scholemasters.., pinche theyr poore pupills and borders by the belly. 1620 R. Seton Let. 9 Apr. in Rep. MSS Earl Eglinton (1885) X. 45 Hes preceis price of his buirdirs sitting at tabill is tuo hunder merk. 1730 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth (ed. 2) 190 A Boarding-school, where none but Boarders are received. 1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) 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. 8b.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > looked after in particular way grass horse1575 boarder1806 livery1896 1806 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. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > member of boarding party boarder1769 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Boarding If the boarder is repulsed. 1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 41 Calling for the boarders, [I] ordered them to board. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 337 The French..closing their lowerdeck port, for fear of the boarders. 3. One who puts the boards on books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 1882 Daily News 28 Dec. 5/2 ‘Boarders’, or they who ‘board’ books, stitchers, and other toilers. Draft additions July 2002 Originally U.S. A participant in a sport or activity that involves riding on a board; esp. a skateboarder or a snowboarder. ΚΠ 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 (N.Y.) June 208 [He] lobbies local ski areas to let boarders on their chairlifts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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