boardsman

noun12

1. •
   A record producer; one who works a mixing board.

   • Brooklyn's THE BAD SEED getsa potentially dangerous production assist from Virginia boardsman Nottz, who resuscitates the Depression-era chorus technique he laced Busta Rhymes with on "Get Out!!" — 2000
2. •
   A surfer.

   • Only the missing boardsman, Sam Meyers, had a real job. How did these young men fund their passion? Surfing in Acapulco costs money. — 2007
3. •
   (old-fashioned) A member (especially male) of a board (governing body).

   • In certain instances we were estranged from denominational boardsmen by their sensitivity to professional prerogative. — 1966
4. •
   A basketball player who excels at rebounds.

   • The overall record for the team was also broken that night when the Royal boardsmen grabbed 71 bouncebacks. — 1958
5. •
   A chess player.

   • Bob took his unspoken initiation in stride; it was a chess game of sorts, and he was in the realm of a master, who, in turn, was son of a master boardsman. — 2003
6. •
   (old-fashioned) A player of draughts/checkers

   • On Tuesday evening draught match was played at the Eastbourne village club. The home team are adept boardsmen [...] — 1892
7. •
   (old-fashioned) A high diver.

   • In the diving competition, ace boardsman Dan Troost fell into second spot by three points as the senior hit his hand and head on the board in his final dive, breaking a small bone in his hand. — 1971
8. •
   (old-fashioned) One who wears a sandwich board.

   • [...] one example of this being the fact that a boardsman has recently been promenading the Strand with a selection of photographs upon his sandwich boards — 1886
9. •
   One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.

   • In a stiff wind, the boardsmen run up 12-15 foot boards from side to balance the craft — 2010
10. •
    A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines

    • Earley in the morning there was an altercation between some of the Boardsmen and one of the Ships Corperals. — 1865
11. •
    One who assembles the frames of a ship.

    • In this work there are engaged the frameturner, the boardsman or adjuster, and a third man whom we may term the builder. — 1894
12. •
    (no longer used) One who prepares wigs or artificial hair.

    • Wanted; good Gent's Hand; fair Ladies and Boardsman, able to put up plain dressings. — 1891