Board wages Meaning, Definition & Usage

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  1. . See under 1st Board.
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  1. . (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. Dryden.

Webster 1913