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enter on the boards

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, archaic, idiomatic, transitive

Qualifier: Cambridge University

Examples

  • 1834, author not stated, possibly Alfred, Lord Tennyson???, Preface to Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam having been entered on the boards of Trinity college

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