enter on the boards

verb

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

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Meanings

verbenter on the boards (third-person singular simple present enters on the boards, present participle entering on the boards, simple past and past participle entered on the boards)

present singular third person enters on the boards · participle present entering on the boards · participle past entered on the boards · past entered on the boards

  1. UKarchaicidiomatictransitiveCambridge UniversityTo inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.

    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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