See quot. 1866.
1858. I ‘boarded round’—a significant phrase, whose meaning every poor country school-master learns with all its variations.—Knick. Mag., li. 31 (Jan.).
1866. If he [the schoolmaster] “boards round,” great is the parade, and great the preparation, by each family, when their “week for boarding the master” draws near.—Seba Smith, ‘’Way Down East,’ p. 76.
1871. It was well for Ralph that he began to “board round” by stopping at Mrs. Means’s.—E. Eggleston, ‘The Hoosier School-master,’ p. 15.
