Definition of "boarding" []

• Present participle of board. (verb)
• The act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation (noun)
• The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship (noun)
• A structure made of boards (noun)
• Riding a skateboard (noun)

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• "Synonymous in many people's minds with the term "boarding school," this bastion of Britishness, founded in 1440, remains a school for boys, unlike many former single-sex schools."
• "He recalls being awakened each morning at about eight in boarding school with a breakfast of a sweet roll and a cup of steaming hot chocolate, served in bed, whose caffeine content propelled him toward the next meal, brunch, served at about ten."
• "And I made myself many kinds of spectators, from crabbed old maids and lean pantaloons to girls in boarding school and Greek boys of thousands of years ago."