Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stiff heavy paperboard used primarily for book covers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stout kind of pasteboard especially used by binders for the stiff boards upon which the leather or other material for bindings is pasted or glued.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of stout pasteboard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A stiff paperboard or pasteboard used as book covers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun stout pasteboard used to bind books

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of milled board.]

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Examples

  • OR: Trace the pattern onto cardstock, and then glue that to millboard, which is the thick non corrugated cardboard that they make book covers and the backs of sketchbooks etc from or onto masonite.

    Hankering for Yarn 2009

  • Cement sheet, millboard, and paper used as insulation around furnaces and wood-burning stoves.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Cement sheet, millboard, and paper used as insulation around furnaces and wood-burning stoves.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • In 1986 the CPSC promulgated a labeling requirement for all products that contain asbestos: asbestos paper and millboard; asbestos cement sheet; dry-mix asbestos furnace or boiler cement; asbestos wood or coal stove-door gaskets; asbestos stove mats and iron rests; central hot-air furnace duct connectors.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • In 1986 the CPSC promulgated a labeling requirement for all products that contain asbestos: asbestos paper and millboard; asbestos cement sheet; dry-mix asbestos furnace or boiler cement; asbestos wood or coal stove-door gaskets; asbestos stove mats and iron rests; central hot-air furnace duct connectors.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Cement sheet, millboard, and paper used as insulation around furnaces and wood-burning stoves.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • In 1986 the CPSC promulgated a labeling requirement for all products that contain asbestos: asbestos paper and millboard; asbestos cement sheet; dry-mix asbestos furnace or boiler cement; asbestos wood or coal stove-door gaskets; asbestos stove mats and iron rests; central hot-air furnace duct connectors.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • In 1986 the CPSC promulgated a labeling requirement for all products that contain asbestos: asbestos paper and millboard; asbestos cement sheet; dry-mix asbestos furnace or boiler cement; asbestos wood or coal stove-door gaskets; asbestos stove mats and iron rests; central hot-air furnace duct connectors.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Cement sheet, millboard, and paper used as insulation around furnaces and wood-burning stoves.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • It is impossible in the space allowed for this paper to enumerate them, but I may add that their ingenious construction, their good wearing qualities, the clever mechanism of the tools by which the various discs of cloth, metal, millboard, etc., are cut out, and the methods of uniting them so as to form a complete button, are marvels of skill and industry.

    The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Various

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