sideboard

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware

   A 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.
2. 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.
3. 3

   A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match…

   A 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.

   • 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.
   • Many of your best chances to overcome opposing decks lie in the development of a strong sideboard.
   • If you plan on playing in tournaments, you'll want to construct a sideboard for your deck.
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   1. 4

      A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in…

      A 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.
   2. 5

      To include (a card) in one's sideboard.

      • Hopefully you now have a strong grasp on how to sideboard effectively.
      • This will cause an opponent to suffer from a number of his newly sideboarded cards, now useless to him.
      • Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.
   3. 6

      To add sideboards to.

      • 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.
      • The additional load capacity made available by sideboarding is gained by making the scraper bowl taller without increasing the bowl width.
      • The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.

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