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Definition of Board up
1. Verb. Cover with wooden boards. "Board up windows before the hurricane"
Definition of Board up
1. Verb. to block doors or windows with boards, either to prevent access or as protection from storms, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Board Up
Literary usage of Board up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (1906)
""The policy of the Board, up to the present time, has been to adopt, wherever
possible, the recommendations of authoritative committees of specialists, ..."
2. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1857)
"3 board-gate was next traversed, the party proceeding up the board-gate to the
bank level, and through the slit to the back-board, up the back-board to the ..."
3. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"No knot in a board up to 6 inches wide to exceed 1 inch in width, and in boards
above that width no knot to exceed 1J inches in width. ..."
4. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"He threw the board up high into the air and ordered it to stay there, and he
commissioned the fire-ball (ie the sun) to guard the mountain-covered hole, ..."
5. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by W. Hastings Macaulay (1852)
"Leave Amoy—Arrive in Macao Roads—Live ashore—Well guarded—Night calls —Ventriloquist
at Typa Fort—Ordered on board—Up to Whampoa—Clipper Ships—Over to ..."
6. The Canadian Law Timesby Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Privy Council by Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Privy Council (1904)
"When only a few boards were to be put up at a time, the man below would push a
board up a little way and rattle it about until some one on the first floor ..."
7. The American Amateur Photographer (1899)
"A bit of. strong string or wire to hang the board up by one end, thus making an
inclined plane down which the perforated pipe will send a thin sheet of ..."
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