What is the name meaning of BOARD. Phrases containing BOARD
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BOARD
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German
German : metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of dill, an aromatic culinary and medicinal herb, Old English dile, dyle.English : nickname from Middle English dell, dill, dull ‘dull’, ‘foolish’.English : from an Old English personal name Dylli or Dylla.Possibly a reduced form of Scottish McDill.
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English
English : variant spelling of Board.
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English
English : variant of Banks 1.Edward Bangs of Chichester, England, came to Plymouth Colony on board the ‘Anne’ in 1623; he is believed to have been born in about 1592.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.
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Biblical
Made of boards.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage (see Board).
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English
English : variant spelling of the Lancashire surname Boardwell, which is probably from a lost or unidentified place.
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German
German : occupational name for a sawyer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dille, dil ‘plank’, ‘(floor)board’.German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Dill, Dille, or Till.English : occupational name for a grower of dill, from an agent derivative of Old English dile (see Dill 2).
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English
English : from Old English bord ‘board’, ‘plank’, ‘table’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places so called, in several counties, all first recorded fairly late. The etymology is generally Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + burh ‘fort’ (see Bury), but Bradbury in County Durham is recorded in Old English as Brydbyrig, the first element probably being Old English bred ‘board’. This is probably also the first element in Bradbury, Cheshire.
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English
English : topographic or metonymic occupational name, a variant of Bridge, with fused Anglo-Norman French article and preposition del (‘of the’).Partly Americanized form of German Delbrück, a habitational name from any of several places named Dellbrücke, in Schleswig-Holstein, near Paderborn, and near Cologne. The place name denotes a boarded crossing through swampy terrain.
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English
English : variant spelling of Bordley.
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English (mainly Somerset)
English (mainly Somerset) : habitational name from Bradnor in Herefordshire, so named with Old English brÄd ‘broad’ (dative -an) + Åra ‘hill slope’.Possibly an altered spelling of the South German surname Brettner, an occupational name for someone who cut shingles or boards, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bret ‘board’, or in some cases perhaps a habitational name for someone from Bretten in Baden.
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English
English : possibly a habitational name from Felbrigg in Norfolk, named with Old Scandinavian fjǫl ‘board’, ‘plank’ + Old English brycg ‘bridge’.
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English
English : habitational name from Lambeth, now part of Greater London, named in Old English as ‘lamb hithe’, from Old English lamb ‘lamb’ + h̄th ‘hithe’, ‘landing place’, i.e. a place where lambs were put on board boat or taken ashore, no doubt in order to supply the meat markets of London on the other side of the river Thames.
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English
English : habitational name, probably from a place in North Yorkshire named Bordley, from Old English bord ‘board’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English
English : from Middle English waynscot (a word of uncertain etymology), which originally denoted superior quality oak boarding imported from the Continent. The surname presumably arose from a nickname for someone who imported or used such timber.
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English
English : variant of Brach 2, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.Probably a partly Americanized form of Swiss German Bretscher, an occupational name for a sawyer, from Brett ‘plank’, ‘board’ + scher, a reduced form of Scherer ‘cutter’, a derivative of scheren ‘to cut’, ‘sever’.
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
A Board of Pleasure
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : from Middle English whit ‘white’, hence a nickname for someone with white hair or an unnaturally pale complexion. In some cases it represents a Middle English personal name, from an Old English byname, Hwīt(a), of this origin. As a Scottish and Irish surname it has been widely used as a translation of the many Gaelic names based on bán ‘white’ (see Bain 1) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). There has also been some confusion with Wight.Translated form of cognate and equivalent names in other languages, such as German Weiss, French Blanc, Polish Białas (see Bialas), etc.Peregrine White (1620–1704), brother of Resolved, was born in Cape Cod harbor on board the Mayflower, thus becoming the first child of English descent to be born in New England. His father, William White, was the son of the rector of Barham, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England; he died in 1621 during the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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Scottish
Scottish : from the Scottish pet form of the personal name
David.English : variant of Way (see below).A family whose name is now found as Davie originated from Wey or
Way near Torrington, Devon, England. Their earliest recorded ancestor
was William de Wy or de la Wey, living in the reign of Henry II
(1154–89). The name later occurred as de Vye and de Vie before being
assimilated to a derivative of
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
God's Elixir
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Indian
Virgins of paradise
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Australian, Hebrew
Jehovah Exists; Wealthy
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Hindu
Beauty and intelligent
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African, Australian, Swahili
Instinct; Character
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Hindu, Indian
Goddess Durga
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Indian
Dedication, Offer
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Hindu
The knower of Vedas
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Muslim/Islamic
Sweet smelling flower of paradise
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n.
One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
n.
The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
n.
A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
n.
To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
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Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
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To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
n.
See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
a.
That can be boarded, as a ship.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Board
n.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
n.
A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
imp. & p. p.
of Board
a.
Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
v. t.
To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
v. i.
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
n.
The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
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A sounding-board.
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A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
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A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
v. t.
To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.