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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

boards

· IPA /bɔːɹdz/
01 n. the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
  1. 1.
    the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
  2. 2.
    the stage; as, to walk the boards, i.e. to act on stage.
  3. 3.
    board examinations (in a profession, as in medicine); -- an informal contraction; as, to take the boards; he flunked the boards.