BOARD, a long piece of timber, sawed thin for building and several other purposes. See TIMBER.
Deal-boards are generally imported into England ready sawed, because done cheaper abroad, in regard we
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we want saw-mills. Cap-boards are imported from Sweden and Dantzic. Oak-boards chiefly from Sweden and Holland; some from Dantzic. We also import white boards for shoemakers; mill and scale-boards, &c. for divers artificers. Scale-board is a thinner sort, used for the covers of primers, thin boxes, and the like. It is made with large planes; but might probably be sawed with mills to advantage.