sideboard

noun

1. A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.

   “He procured himself a glass of water from the sideboard, drank half of it and began to pace the room nervously as he talked.”

2. A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.

   “Fleming watched the sideboarded truck diminish down the rolling hillside, the stackers atop the hay clutching the sideboards and swaying and bouncing toward the barn.”

3. A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.

   “Cards can only be exchanged between the playing deck and the sideboard on a one-to-one basis between duels or matches, and any number of cards, up to fifteen, can be exchanged at once.”

   “Many of your best chances to overcome opposing decks lie in the development of a strong sideboard.”

   “If you plan on playing in tournaments, you'll want to construct a sideboard for your deck.”

   “They can have a 15-card sideboard or no sideboard. The sideboard can be used to replace cards in the deck after each game.”

4. A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.

   “Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.”

verb

1. To include (a card) in one's sideboard.

   “Hopefully you now have a strong grasp on how to sideboard effectively.”

   “This will cause an opponent to suffer from a number of his newly sideboarded cards, now useless to him.”

   “Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.”

2. To add sideboards to.

   “Wood used at the Natioual Guard camps will include flooring for tents. Tents will also be sideboarded for a distance of about three feet up from the ground.”

   “The additional load capacity made available by sideboarding is gained by making the scraper bowl taller without increasing the bowl width.”

   “The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.”