Word: boardsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From board + -s- + man. 1. A member (especially male) of a board (governing body). Labels: dated Example: In certain instances we were estranged from denominational boardsmen by their sensitivity to professional prerogative. Example: The members elected for the consolidated school system were often boardsmen from the parent school systems. 2. A surfer. Example: 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. Example: Only the missing boardsman, Sam Meyers, had a real job. How did these young men fund their passion? Surfing in Acapulco costs money. 3. A record producer; one who works a mixing board. Example: 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!!" Example: 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 4. A high diver. Labels: dated Example: 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. Example: 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. 5. A basketball player who excels at rebounds. Example: The overall record for the team was also broken that night when the Royal boardsmen grabbed 71 bouncebacks. Example: 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. 6. A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines Example: Earley in the morning there was an altercation between some of the Boardsmen and one of the Ships Corperals. Example: 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. 7. One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it. Example: 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. Example: 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. 8. One who wears a sandwich board. Labels: dated Example: [...] 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 Example: 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." 9. A chess player. Example: 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. Example: 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. 10. A player of draughts/checkers Labels: dated Example: On Tuesday evening draught match was played at the Eastbourne village club. The home team are adept boardsmen [...] Example: 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. 11. One who assembles the frames of a ship. Example: In this work there are engaged the frameturner, the boardsman or adjuster, and a third man whom we may term the builder. Example: [...] 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. 12. One who prepares wigs or artificial hair. Labels: archaic Example: 1891, July 25, classified advert in South Wales Echo Wanted; good Gent's Hand; fair Ladies and Boardsman, able to put up plain dressings. Example: 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.