waterboard
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.85 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
verb
To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The waterboard argued that the quality of the water was good […]"
- "We waterboarded the suspect, but he refused to confess."
Etymology
From Middle English water boarde, waterbord, equivalent to water + board. Compare West Frisian wetterboard (“waterboard”), Dutch waterbord (“waterboard”), German Wassertafel (“waterboard”), Danish vandbræt (“waterboard”), Swedish vattenbräda (“waterboard”), Icelandic vatnsbretti (“waterboard”).