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board. 1. The distance a sailing vessel runs between
tacks when working to
windward. Thus a ship tacking across the wind to reach a point to windward of its present position can make short or long boards according to the frequency of her tacks; the more she tacks the shorter the boards.
2. To make a good board, to sail in a straight line when
close hauled making only the minimum of
leeway.
3. To make a stern board, to come up head to wind so that the vessel stops and makes way
astern until she falls off on the opposite tack, often a very seamanlike operation when navigating in narrow channels.
4. To board it up, an old term used by seamen meaning to
beat up to windward.
5. To go on board, to go aboard a ship.
6. To slip by the board, to desert a ship by escaping down its side.
7. By the board, close to the deck as when a mast is broken off close to the deck, or goes by the board.
8. When used as a verb, it describes the action of going alongside an enemy vessel and overwhelming its crew with an armed
boarding party.
See also
boarders;
enter, to.
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