From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. --Totten.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a tenant in someone's house [syn: {lodger}, {roomer}]
2: someone who forces their way aboard ship; "stand by to repel boarders"
3: a pupil who lives at school during term time
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "boarder": Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, lactovegetarian, lessee, lodger, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, paying guest, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, renter, roomer, tenant, transient, transient guest, trencherman, underlessee, vegetarian
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