Boarder
['bɔːdə] or ['bɔrdɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a pupil who lives at school during term time.
(noun.) someone who forces their way aboard ship; 'stand by to repel boarders'.
Editor: Oswald--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
(n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
Typist: Pearl
Examples
- Steerforth, the only parlour-boarder. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Miss Shepherd is a boarder at the Misses Nettingalls' establishment. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She is known only as parlour-boarder at a common school. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Lor, Miss Smithers, dear,' said the other nine-and-twenty boarders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Such luxury of grief, however, is only allowed to parlour-boarders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The keeper of a chandler's shop in a front parlour, who took in gentlemen boarders, lent his assistance in making the bed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- On the evening preceding the examination-day, I was walking in the garden, as were the other teachers and all the boarders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When matins came to be said, there was a place vacant in the first rank of boarders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Grapplers and boarders lined the contiguous rails of each. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then as the Carthaginian rammed or swept alongside, this _corvus_, as it was called, could be let down and the boarders could swarm aboard him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were twelve boarders, and there were two Miss Donnys, twins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The establishment was both a pensionnat and an externat: the externes or day-pupils exceeded one hundred in number; the boarders were about a score. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Had Mrs. Sedley been a woman of energy, she would have exerted it after her husband's ruin and, occupying a large house, would have taken in boarders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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