# boardsman
## English
### Etymology

From board +‎ -s- +‎ man.

### Noun

boardsman (plural boardsmen)
* (dated) A member (especially male) of a board (governing body).
    Synonym: board member
** 1966, C. Stanley Lowell, Embattled Wall: Americans United, an Idea and a Man:In certain instances we were estranged from denominational boardsmen by their sensitivity to professional prerogative.
** 1972, Richard O. Carlson, School Superintendents: Careers and Performance, Merrill Publishing Company:The members elected for the consolidated school system were often boardsmen from the parent school systems.
** 1972, Ohio Schools:The youngest Ohio boardsman, John (Scott) Francis, 18, is a warehouse billing clerk.
** 2000, George E. Thomas, David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 63:Beyond their obvious role in selecting architects and shaping the appearance of the campus along the lines of their businesses, Philadelphia boardsmen, whose resources were tied up in their industries, took a different course from the capitalists of New York in running and funding the university.
* A surfer.
** 1995, The Laser Disc Newsletter:The first Endless Summer was partially a surfing documentary and partially a travelog, but it was organized around the quest for the perfect beach, which the intrepid boardsmen finally found at the film's end.
** 2007, Nora Charles, Death Rides the Surf, Penguin, →ISBN:Only the missing boardsman, Sam Meyers, had a real job. How did these young men fund their passion? Surfing in Acapulco costs money.
** 2012, Forest Fox, Circles In Time, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12:We found Viri and his friend Miki Aikau, a legendary boardsman, waiting for us on the beach.
* A record producer; one who works a mixing board.
** 2000, Vibe, page 169:Brooklyn's THE BAD SEED getsa potentially dangerous production assist from Virginia boardsman Nottz, who resuscitates the Depression-era chorus technique he laced Busta Rhymes with on "Get Out!!"
** 2003, Cheo Hodari Coker, Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G., →ISBN:The production from Miami-based boardsman Red Spyda is punchier, G-Unit's faux Last Poets-style ad libs gleefully interact with Big, and 50 freely flaunts his outlaw-cum-favored-son status
** 2007, King Magazine:A boardsman at heart, though, his dark, diamond-hard soundtrack steals the show.
* (dated) A high diver.
** 1949, July 20, The Chilliwack Progress‎, page 15:High divers Wilf Bacon, who holds the B.C. indoor crown, and Bernie McHale supplied thrilling samples of what aquatic fans will see, when the province's best boardsmen vie for honors at the Jaycee Regatta next month.
** 1971, February 8, The Holland Evening Sentinel‎, page 2:In the diving competition, ace boardsman Dan Troost fell into second spot by three points as the senior hit his hand and head on the board in his final dive, breaking a small bone in his hand.
** 1975, April 1, Ukiah Daily Journal‎, page 6:He needs only to concentrate and to dive in practice, to become a still far better boardsman.
* (basketball) A basketball player who excels at rebounds.
** 1958, February 21, Pittston Gazette‎, page 6:The overall record for the team was also broken that night when the Royal boardsmen grabbed 71 bouncebacks.
** 1963, January 12, The Kansas City Times‎, page 23:Willie Murrell, the fluid 6-6 frontliner, is the ’Cats No. 1 point producer with an 18.3 average. His 9.1 mark also tops the boardsmen.
** 1984, February 9, Santa Cruz Sentinel‎, page 30:Michael Whitley of Ohlone led all boardsmen with 6 rebounds.
* (nautical) A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines
** 1865 February 20, William Benjamin Gould, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor, page 223:Earley in the morning there was an altercation between some of the Boardsmen and one of the Ships Corperals.
** 1948, George Goldsmith Carter, The smacksmen: a story of the fishermen of the Borough:Why, blast, I mind when I wor boardsman o' the Rose of Sharon. The mate, I f 'rget his name, went hoom unexpected-like one night and found a man in bed 'long o' his old woman.
** 1986, Hervey Benham, Once Upon a Tide:The crews of the later ketches numbered nine; a master (who was often also owner), mate, boardsman, and under-boardsman, whose duties were to bait and shoot the lines, the haulers and backer-in, who coiled down and removed the stale bait, and the boy, who was also cook.
* (nautical) One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.
** 1984, July 2, The Star-Democrat (Easton, Maryland), page 27
    By adjusting their position on the boards, the crew can compensate for subtle changes in wind and course. One wrong move may be enough to send everyone into the drink, so the job of the boardsman is a tricky one.
** 1989, Nelson Lyles Forbes, The racing log canoe: Ancient traditions alive on the Chesapeake Bay, thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 34-36
    Roger Vaughn explains the tack, in relation to the boardsmen, stating: Part of the fun, not to mention exercise, in log canoe sailing smooth crew work with the heavy planks that keep these hulls on their feet or close to it.
** 2010, Stephen R. Brown, Tidewater: Images of the Chesapeake Bay, page 62:In a stiff wind, the boardsmen run up 12-15 foot boards from side to balance the craft
* (dated) One who wears a sandwich board.
    Synonym: boardman
** 1886, Journal for Amateur Photographers:[...] one example of this being the fact that a boardsman has recently been promenading the Strand with a selection of photographs upon his sandwich boards
** 1892, Joseph Grego, A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering: From the Stuarts to Queen Victoria:In " Following the Leader " (May 12, 1887), HB has given a fanciful version of the candidate's supporters impressed as boardsmen. O'Connell heads the file, with a placard "Leader for Westminster."
** 1894, Montagu Williams Q.C, (Please provide the book title or journal name):From time to time the boardsman has to don some descriptive costume. Should he be retained on behalf of the Army and Navy Hair-Cutting Saloon, he may appear in an old regimental tunic and cocked hat, accompanied by a mate who stalks the world in the guise of a British Admiral. Again, should his boards illustrate “The Convict’s Doom,” the latest melodramatic success at the Princess’s Theatre, he will very likely walk abroad in knickerbockers and a jacket plentifully embellished with the broad arrow.
* A chess player.
** 2003, Warren Getler, Bob Brewer, Shadow of the Sentinel: One Man's Quest to Find the Hidden Treasure of the Confederacy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 12:Bob took his unspoken initiation in stride; it was a chess game of sorts, and he was in the realm of a master, who, in turn, was son of a master boardsman.
** 2009 November 20, Dave McKenna, “Chess Master Reflects on a Life of Queens and Rooks”, in Washington City Paper:On talent alone, Hook confesses, he had no right to such a matchup. No, the way Hook describes the Virgin Island boardsmen, they come off like the chess equivalent of the Jamaican bobsledders who gamed their way into the Olympics (the athletical Olympics, not the chess olympics) by representing a nation that really shouldn’t be competing.
** 2015 August 22, Andrew Armitage, “Two Richly Rewarding Reads”, in The Sun Times:While I am sure that there have been many novels that revolve around chess, it was Robert Hough who transported the game from the old world to the new along with the boardsman, Benny Wand.
* (dated) A player of draughts/checkers
** 1892 March 19, “Midhurst”, in Sussex Agricultural Express, page 5:On Tuesday evening draught match was played at the Eastbourne village club. The home team are adept boardsmen [...]
** 1911 November 10, “Dover Draughts Club”, in Dover Express, page 5:The following match was contested on Wednesday last week, when the Town Club, though without their two top boardsmen, proved far too strong for the soldiers.
** 1934, April 11, "Plan Checker Tourney Soon", The Daily Republican (Monongahela, Pennsylvania), page 4
    Champion checker players of Pittsburgh and a team composed of the outstanding boardsmen of the Monongahela Valley will meet in a checker tournament to be held in Donora on Saturday, April 21st.
* One who assembles the frames of a ship.
** 1894 February 14, “Shipbuilders Wages”, in Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, page 2:In this work there are engaged the frameturner, the boardsman or adjuster, and a third man whom we may term the builder.
** 1920, North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders:[...] having given out information so that the midship frames could be worked, it had been found that the boardsmen were practically upon the backs of the loftsmen and it had been difficult to keep pace without outside work.
** 1960, “Portraits”, in Lithgow Journal:Alex Pollock, Frame Boardsman, East Yard
* (archaic) One who prepares wigs or artificial hair.
** 1891, July 25, classified advert in South Wales Echo
    Wanted; good Gent's Hand; fair Ladies and Boardsman, able to put up plain dressings.
** 1903, Edwin Creer, Alfred M. Sutton, Boardwork; or, The art of wigmaking, &c: a technical handbook designed for the use of hairdressers, and especially of young men in the trade ...:It is unnecessary after this description to remind the young boardsman that no net is put on inside the mount, all the middle portion being left bare.
** 1911, August 20, classified advert in The Press (New Zealand)
    HAIRDRESSERS-Wanted, a First-class Gentleman's Hand and Boardsman, Must understand all branches of hair work

#### Derived terms

* boardsmanship

### Anagrams

* Boardmans, broadsman