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Answer for the clue "Board wanted to get you on board ", 9 letters:
gangplank

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside [syn: gangboard , gangway ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Finally Fran led the way down the gangplank , feeling waves of tiredness washing over her. ▪ He dropped the gangplank over the stern and wheeled the motor cycle down. ▪ Now the stranger was standing on the quayside, watching ...

Usage examples of gangplank.

He and Audubon and Harris clasped hands and clapped one another on the back when the gangplank went down and passengers could disembark.

Kitty told her nothing of her latest conversation with the tall stranger--she realised she still had no idea who Jack Chiltern was--and, picking up their baggage, helped her maid up on to the deck and down the gangplank on to French soil.

Travis and Condy edged their way among piles of wheat-bags, dodging drays and rumbling trucks, and finally brought up at the after gangplank, where a sailor halted them.

As Travis and Condy were going down the gangplank they met the captain of the whaleback coming up.

The young doctor walked down the gangplank dressed in perfect alpaca, wearing a vest and dustcoat, with the beard of a young Pasteur and his hair divided by a neat, pale part, and with enough self-control to hide the lump in his throat caused not by terror but by sadness.

Zendt called, whereupon Captain Frake ordered a Negro to lower a gangplank to the levee, and Levi climbed aboard, delivering the fifty-three dollars.

Captain Frake finally ordered his crew to fire up the boilers, bring in the gangplanks and cast off from the iron rings.

Captain Frake decided to lay over several days to see if he could pick up Mexican goods for the trip north, it gave Levi a chance to exercise his horses, and when he led the six grays down the gangplank they excited a storm of interest.

Trout said, as he and Gamay walked up the gangplank onto the deck of the survey vessel.

He said a few words in an unfamiliar language, and a ladderlike gangplank was lifted up and stretched across to the log.

Gangplank entrance was forward for convenience, whereas most landplanes were entered aft of the wing trailing edge.

Lummomu-Ko and Wikit-Aa were near the gangplank, assisting the five Oathed Companions to don packboards that bore sacks containing spare weapons, clothing, a few necessities, and food.

There were two gangplanks down there, one leading left, the other right, a crossroads of quay and gangplanks.

I climbed up the rest of the gangplank and was about to hunt up my cabin when my eyes fell on one of the passengers, a vision of loveliness who looked like a redheaded version of Rosepetal Schultz, and the human spirit, glorious and unquenchable thing that it is, began to soar within me once again, especially after I saw the size of the diamonds on her necklace.

Finlay backed up the gangplank, gun at the ready, but none of the superpeople dueling above so much as looked down.