Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hard and non-flexible: said of the wire teeth of card-clothing when they become worn and stumpy.
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Examples
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The cloth, should be open in texture, as coarse cotton or heavy cheese cloth, not "boardy" and air-tight.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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Usually some lame, card-boardy thing like ‘understanding’, way too cerebral.
enowning enowning 2009
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Usually some lame, card-boardy thing like ‘understanding’, way too cerebral.
Archive 2009-07-01 enowning 2009
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It is difficult for us with our academical and somewhat school-boardy minds to enter into all this, and to understand the sense of (unconscious or sub-conscious) identification with the world around which characterized the primitive man -- or to look upon Nature with his eyes.
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But what words can describe the agony of squeezing my feet into boots, after nearly a year of moccasins, or discarding my turban for a great boardy hat, which seemed to crush my temples?
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It is difficult for us with our academical and somewhat school-boardy minds to enter into all this, and to understand the sense of (unconscious or sub-conscious) identification with the world around which characterized the primitive man -- or to look upon Nature with his eyes.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886
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"Tea-boardy" pictures do not make us laugh, we only attribute them to unskilful artists, of whom unfortunately there are too many.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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The Extra Stiff Jumps to 68 Grams, and sports a low --- but not boardy -- 3. 2* of torque.
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Yeah, he's a little card-boardy like his brother, but for all the Fel family's stiffness, there's something cool about them, particularly Chak.
starwars.com Blogs 2009
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He cpntinued a member of the adtniralty-boardy during four commiflions, till the • month of March 1795; and, at the general eledion in
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