duckboard

[ duhk-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun
  1. a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.

Origin of duckboard

1
First recorded in 1915–20; duck1 + board

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How to use duckboard in a sentence

  • This fellow was still lying on the ground by the duckboards, trembling all over and paralysed with fear.

    Combed Out | Fritz August Voigt
  • In one part of the trench there were no duckboards and the vile mud was thigh-deep.

  • Our load was very heavy and we had to feel our way slowly along the duckboards.

    Combed Out | Fritz August Voigt
  • I hurried down and found two of the working party lying on the duckboards.

  • Taking up ammunition to the guns at Passchendaele Ridge, I met a few infantrymen carrying duckboards.

British Dictionary definitions for duckboard

duckboard

/ (ˈdʌkˌbɔːd) /


noun
  1. a board or boards laid so as to form a floor or path over wet or muddy ground

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