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plural backboards
(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached. examples
(tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds. examples
(medicine) A spine board. examples
A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc. examples
third-person singular simple present backboards, present participle backboarding, simple past and past participle backboarded
(medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board. examples
usually uncountable, plural backboards
(nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship quotations examples
And to delight in the fact that a hole on the backboard side means that you're safe because you're sitting on the starboard side seems to me to be less than clever.
2013, Klaus Backhaus, Hurdle Race Marketing
But the gangplank was no longer in place. It had folded itself in half and clamped into storage position, becoming part of the starboard rail. Big Tom peered over the rail and saw nothing but sea. All around. Starboard, backboard, forward, aft.
2014, Jeff Bredenberg, The Dream Vessel