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Word Meanings - DRAUGHTBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.

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  • PLAY
    quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • PLAYTE
    See PLEYT
  • DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
    The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • CHECKERBERRY
    A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • PLAYTHING
    A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
  • CHECKERWORK
    1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.
  • DRAUGHTSMAN
    1. One who draws pleadings or other writings. 2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. 3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts. 4. One who drinks
  • PLAYSOME
    Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
  • CHECKER
    One who checks.
  • PLAYGAME
    Play of children. Locke.
  • PLAYER
    1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
  • PLAYMATE
    A companion in diversions; a playfellow.
  • PLAYBOOK
    A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. Swift.
  • CHECKERED
    1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton. 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.
  • PLAYING
    a. & vb. n. of Play. Playing cards. See under Card.
  • SIDEBOARD
    A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
  • WEATHERBOARDING
    The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
  • SPRINGBOARD
    An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
  • CHESSBOARD
    The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
  • MEDAL PLAY
    Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
  • ABOARD
    On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • SPLAYFOOT
    A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
  • HORSEPLAY
    Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
  • WASHBOARD
    A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • SPLAYMOUTH
    A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
  • SCALEBOARD
    A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
  • VERGEBOARD
    The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
  • WORDPLAY
    A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

 

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