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Webster 1913 Edition


Waterboard

Wa′ter-boardˊ

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Noun.
A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Definition 2024


waterboard

waterboard

English

Noun

waterboard (plural waterboards)

  1. A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
  2. A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
    • 2005, Ruth M. Mourik, Did Water Kill the Cows?, page 167:
      The waterboard argued that the quality of the water was good []

Verb

waterboard (third-person singular simple present waterboards, present participle waterboarding, simple past and past participle waterboarded)

  1. To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive
    We waterboarded the suspect, but he refused to confess.