boardsman

1. (dated)A member (especially male) of a board (governing body).

2. A surfer.

3. A record producer; one who works a mixing board.

4. (dated)A high diver.

5. A basketball player who excels at rebounds.

6. A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines

7. One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.

8. (dated)One who wears a sandwich board.

9. A chess player.

10. (dated)A player of draughts/checkers

11. One who assembles the frames of a ship.

12. (archaic)One who prepares wigs or artificial hair.

    1891, July 25, classified advert in South Wales Echo Wanted; good Gent's Hand; fair Ladies and Boardsman, able to put up plain dressings.

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