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The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]

A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

Same as Flashboard.

g vessel. Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of discovery to the northwest with two flyboats. Purchas.

A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull.

A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as:

One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.

The jerboa.

A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.

A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.

A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

enus Dipus, esp. D. Ægyptius, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail. [Written also gerboa.]

A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.

The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.