Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A board or boardwalk laid across wet or muddy ground or flooring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of a long series of
boards laid as apath across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boardwalk laid across muddy ground
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word duckboard.
Examples
-
Bursting into the warehouses, they brushed past the startled sentries and helped themselves to the stacks of duckboard—collecting armfuls of shovels, axes, picks and soup kettles while they were at it.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
-
To do that he needed duckboard—the long, wood-slatted platforms that were made to be laid along the bottom of trenches.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
-
He even helped a young soldier with his load, picking up one end of a heavy slab of duckboard and hauling it through the inevitable drizzling mist.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
-
Butler decided that the duckboard would make excellent sidewalks for his sloshy camp.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
-
The old army quartermaster in charge of the warehouses feared he would be court-martialed after the war if all the duckboard could not be accounted for.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
-
Dick turned the corner of the traverse and continued along the trench walking on the duckboard.
Tender is the Night 2003
-
Henri swung himself out of the sea and rolled lengthwise onto the duckboard.
-
At the side of the duckboard, where it came closest to the canvas but had been hidden by the rope, both the wood and the canvas were deeply stained.
Through The Eye Of A Needle Clement, Hal, 1922- 1978
-
It was a cider house, with a heavy old-fashioned oaken press at the far end, one long wall lined with duckboard shelving for apples, the other with bunged casks and covered vats of freshly made cider.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
-
It was a cider house, with a heavy old-fashioned oaken press at the far end, one long wall lined with duckboard shelving for apples, the other with bunged casks and covered vats of freshly made cider.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
vendingmachine commented on the word duckboard
"It was a cider house, with a heavy old-fashioned oaken press at the far end, one long wall lined with duckboard shelving for apples, the other with bunged casks and covered vats of freshly made cider."
This context has nothing to do with mud.
July 30, 2015