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boarder 1. Brit a pupil who lives at school during term time 2. US a child who lives away from its parents and is cared for by a person or organization receiving payment 3. a person who boards a ship, esp one who forces his way aboard in an attack 4. Informal a person who takes part in sailboarding or snowboarding boardgames.about.com How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But his words were unheeded, no shot was fired, and the last boarder made good his escape and disappeared with the rest into the wood. He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding. Pocket, yet it always appeared to me that by far the best part of the house to have boarded in, would have been the kitchen - always supposing the boarder capable of self-defence, for, before I had been there a week, a neighbouring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say that she had seen Millers slapping the baby. |
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