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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Board.
 
To accost. (French, aborder, to accost.)   1
       
“I’ll board her, though she chide as loud
As thunder.”
       
Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, i. 2.
   (See also Hamlet, ii. 2.)   2
 


 Board.Board of Green Cloth. 

 
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