[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That boards (a ship).
1797. Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav. (ed. 2), IV. xci. 163. The boarding Romans.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, v. He had not been of the boarding party.
2. That boards in another person’s house.
1860. H. E. P. Spofford, Pilot’s Wife, in Casquet Lit. (1877), IV. 7/2. She despised these boarding people.
