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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boarder
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even today, most of its 300odd boarders are orphans or homeless children.
▪ He shouted directions to the boarders, and, when they were ignored, he shouted contrary orders.
▪ I could never get a decent swing with my left hand, but at best I would use it only to repel boarders.
▪ In the second car came all the boarders, little ladies with pastel waves and bright anxious eyes.
▪ One of George's brothers was recently placed in a residential school for children with moderate learning difficulties as a weekly boarder.
▪ Roughly half of them were weekly boarders.
▪ Students were to be taken in as boarders, having been recommended by a respectable person who knew them or their families.
▪ There can be a really heavy feeling sometimes between local surfers and visitors and between the real surfers and the boogie boarders.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boarder

Boarder \Board"er\, n.

  1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

  2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
    --Totten.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boarder

1520s, "one who has food and/or lodging at the house of another," agent noun from board (v.), in the "be supplied with food" sense; meaning "one who boards (an enemy's) ships" is from 1769, from a verbal sense derived from board (n.2).

Wiktionary
boarder

n. 1 A pupil who lives at school during term time. 2 Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel. 3 (context nautical English) A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy. 4 Someone who uses a snowboard

WordNet
boarder
  1. n. a tenant in someone's house [syn: lodger, roomer]

  2. someone who forces their way aboard ship; "stand by to repel boarders"

  3. a pupil who lives at school during term time

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Usage examples of "boarder".

She related to me in the most assuring manner that the handsomest of all the nuns in the convent loved her to distraction, gave her a French lesson twice a-day, and had amicably forbidden her to become acquainted with the other boarders.

She soon came down with the pretty boarder, who feebly sustained my part in her amorous ecstacies.

Had be Bem been one of the belligerent boarders, it would have meant that the captain and the others were in serious trouble below.

After riding twelve miles I got bread and milk for myself and a feed for Birdie at a large house where there were eight boarders, each one looking nearer the grave than the other, and on remounting was directed to leave the main road and diverge through Monument Park, a ride of twelve miles among fantastic rocks, but I lost my way, and came to an end of all tracks in a wild canyon.

But the herald saw it for what it was, and, as the galley came alongside the galleon, with a brace of brawny Irishmen contriving to keep her there against the tug of the current with boathooks and main strength, the herald shouted up at a swarthy, bearded man who stood by the rail with a glowing length of matchcord in one tar-stained hand and the other grasping the aiming rod of a swivel guna three-inch drake, mounted in the rail specifically to repel boarders.

The three boarders had their apartment in a different part of the house, and I had therefore no mishap to fear.

Grimani, who had placed me as a boarder with the accursed Sclavonian woman.

After I had examined the Pantaloons, Punches, Harlequins, and Merry Andrews, I went near the grating, where I saw all the nuns and boarders, some seated, some standing, and, without appearing to, notice any of them in particular, I remarked my two friends together, and very intent upon the dancers.

She was grieving, however, after the young boarder, who had been taken from the convent and married.

She had about fifteen young boarders of thirteen or fourteen years of age.

I went out to ask my daughter, and another boarder of whom I was very fond, to dinner, and on my way called on the Marquis of Caraccioli, an agreeable man, whose acquaintance I had made at Turin.

The chief boarder in the house where she lived was Madame Brigonzi, whom I had met at Memel.

The service at the Parrot was not all that was required of the men forming the gun crew, for each was also a first or second boarder, a pumpman, or something else, and to each number one or two weapons were assigned, as musket and pike, sword and pistol, battle-axe.

Jeannin had laid siege to a more inaccessible beauty, who had refused to listen to his sighs for less than 30 crowns, paid in advance, and de Jars had become quite absorbed by his adventure with the convent boarder at La Raquette, and the business of that young stranger whom he passed off as his nephew.