waterboard

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Etymology

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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).

Noun

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waterboard (plural waterboards)

  1. A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
  2. A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
    • 2005, Ruth M. Mourik, Did Water Kill the Cows?[1], page 167:
      The waterboard argued that the quality of the water was good []

Verb

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waterboard (third-person singular simple present waterboards, present participle waterboarding, simple past and past participle waterboarded)

  1. To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive.
    We waterboarded the suspect, but he refused to confess.

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