board
noun
a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
boardlike
-
a word derived from
board.
Example Sentences
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Finally there is a boardlike rigidity to his entire body that renders him immobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thanked heaven for that as he tore away a boardlike piece of apparatus and jammed it over the leak in the jar.
From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Harry Bates
