Sides of a rink

Usage examples of boards.

The aircraft was able to take off again after an HBC car penter named NValterjohnson fashioned a substitute out of toboggan boards held together with babiche-glue distilled from moose hoofs.

The handspike which secured the chief leak had worked out of its place, and the blankets and boards were forced inwards.

What we propose is, that we should construct a shelter of boards four feet high in the bottom of your boat, leading from your little cabin aft right up to the bow.

The punt was a very old affair, reduced almost to punk by the decay of the boards of which it was built, or the bow of the cutter would not have gone through it so readily.

Haskins sat down on the floor, placing the torch on the small crate Chris used for a table, so that it made a round spot of light on the boards overhead.

The control boards of the city stretched before him, still largely useful, but dead forever in one crucial bloc-the bank that had once flown the city from star to new star.

In order not to miss them, it was necessary to make short boards, so that all hands were kept constantly at work, putting the ship about every quarter of an hour, while lanterns were hung over the weather side to show her whereabouts should the boats have got clear of the whale.

Crash bracelets had to have metal inside, because they worked on magnets, the way the boards did.

Pressed together like a sandwich, the paired boards could carry twice as much weight, most of it in saddlebags slung on the underside.

David carried, then walk the boards along it, guiding them like reluctant donkeys across some narrow footbridge before rolling it up again.

He taught her how to tell time and direction from the stars, and she showed him how to open the expert software in the boards to optimize them for night travel.

Hopefully, they would need the extra boards when they emerged from Special Circumstances, escapees in tow.

She slid carefully toward the front of the paired boards, the toes of one grippy shoe sticking out past the riding surface.

The boards picked up speed, and seconds later Tally leaped off onto the roof, kicking one pair of hoverboards to Croy.

If all four boards took different routes to the river, and all of them dropped their trackers in different places, the Specials were going to have a confusing night.