Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOARD, v.t.

1. To lay or spread with boards; to cover with boards.
2. To enter a ship by force in combat, which answers to storming a city or fort on land.
3. To attack; to make the first attempt upon a man. In Spenser, to accost. [Fr. aborder.] [Obs.] – Bacon. Shak.
4. To place at board, for a compensation, as a lodger.
5. To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation; as, a man boards ten students.