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fire⋅board

  [fahyuhr-bawrd, -bohrd]
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–noun
1. a board used to close a fireplace.
2. Chiefly South Midland U.S. a mantel; mantelpiece.
Origin:
1820–30; fire + board
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fire·board   (fīr'bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.   Upper Southern U.S.
See mantel.
man·tel also man·tle   (mān'tl)   
n.  

  1. An ornamental facing around a fireplace. Also called regionally mantelpiece.

  2. The protruding shelf over a fireplace. Also called mantelpiece, mantelshelf; also called regionally fireboard.


[Middle English mantel, as in mantiltre, beam over fireplace opening (perhaps from its use for drying wet clothing); see manteltree.]
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