sideboard

plural sideboards

1. furnitureA piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.

   He procured himself a glass of water from the sideboard, drank half of it and began to pace the room nervously as he talked.

   1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

   Synonyms: buffet, cupboard

2. A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.

   Fleming watched the sideboarded truck diminish down the rolling hillside, the stackers atop the hay clutching the sideboards and swaying and bouncing toward the barn.

   2000, William Gay, Provinces of Night, page 196

3. collectiblecard gamesA set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.

   If you plan on playing in tournaments, you'll want to construct a sideboard for your deck.

   2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 61

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   Cards can only be exchanged between the playing deck and the sideboard on a one-to-one basis between duels or matches, and any number of cards, up to fifteen, can be exchanged at once.

   1995, Larry W. Smith, Learn Magic Cards, →ISBN, page 80

   Many of your best chances to overcome opposing decks lie in the development of a strong sideboard.

   1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering magic cards, →ISBN

   They can have a 15-card sideboard or no sideboard. The sideboard can be used to replace cards in the deck after each game.

   2010, Kelly Nicole Czarnecki, Gaming in Libraries, →ISBN, page 54

4. fishingA restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.

   Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.

   2012, Federal Register - Volume 77, Issue 50, page 15226

present singular third person sideboards · participle present sideboarding · participle past sideboarded · past sideboarded

1. collectiblecard gamesTo include (a card) in one's sideboard.

   Hopefully you now have a strong grasp on how to sideboard effectively.

   1995, Charles Wolfe, Deep Magic

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   This will cause an opponent to suffer from a number of his newly sideboarded cards, now useless to him.

   1996, George Baxter, Tables of Magic, page 43

   Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.

   2002, Steve Frohnhoefer, Michael Searle, Magic: The Gathering Online : Prima's Official Strategy Guide

2. To add sideboards to.

   The additional load capacity made available by sideboarding is gained by making the scraper bowl taller without increasing the bowl width.

   1970, Jagman Singh, On and with the earth, page 273

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   Wood used at the Natioual Guard camps will include flooring for tents. Tents will also be sideboarded for a distance of about three feet up from the ground.

   1917, The Lumber Manufacturer and Dealer - Volume 60, page 50

   The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.

   2004, The North Dakota Quarterly - Volume 71, Issues 1-2, page 67