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/bˈɔrdɪŋ haʊs/ Listen

noun

Boarding n.

(Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. "Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate."

The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.

Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept.

Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it.

Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it.

Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.

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"Boarding house" Quotes from Famous Books

... already five minutes after three o'clock, my dinner hour, when he at length appeared in the Library; and possibly I put some reproach into my greeting: "Won't you walk along with me to Mrs. Trevise's?" (That was my boarding house.) ...

— Lady Baltimore • Owen Wister

... should be reduced to such straits as these. The lightning had struck uncomfortably near home. Besides she had always been fond of Laura. Yes, she knew Mrs. Farley's, a shrewish Irishwoman, who kept a cheap theatrical boarding house in Forty ——th Street. Ten years ago, in the days when she was a stage beginner, struggling to make both ends meet, she had lived there and as she looked back on those days of self denial ...

— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow

... groaned Scannell. "I tried to find lodgings for some of my guards at Mrs. Hutchinson's boarding house. She slammed the door in my face. I tried the other side and found that Coleman and Bluxome had an option on it. They've already sent ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... little girl in a boarding house. Oh, Papa Sherwood! We must find somebody to care for her while we are ...

— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr

... ado before he can get suited with a boarding house. He dislikes children. He has been accustomed to quiet. His habits are methodical—and then he would prefer getting into a private and respectable small family, piously inclined. Terms, however, are no object—only ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

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