Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wash-board or skirting of a room. See
wash-board .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Carp.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See
baseboard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
skirting board (to protect a wall from wet mops)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor
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Examples
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Who would ever have imagined I would know the words for: fan, handyman, mopboard, lawn, drainage, water softener, etc. in Spanish but not in German or Italian?
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Who would ever have imagined I would know the words for: fan, handyman, mopboard, lawn, drainage, water softener, etc. in Spanish but not in German or Italian?
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Who would ever have imagined I would know the words for: fan, handyman, mopboard, lawn, drainage, water softener, etc. in Spanish but not in German or Italian?
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Who would ever have imagined I would know the words for: fan, handyman, mopboard, lawn, drainage, water softener, etc. in Spanish but not in German or Italian?
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He's scratching the mopboard with the toe of his oxfords.
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He's scratching the mopboard with the toe of his oxfords.
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There came a fearful rending of laths; the mopboard buckled; two vases of alabaster fell from the parlor mantel, and almost at the same moment the red plush clock with the stone cuckoo-bird over the dial and the music box "where its gizzard should have been," as Elmer always said, fell likewise.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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If you do not find it there, examine the base or mopboard.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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There is a corresponding opening in the mopboard in the next room, although no attempt is made to so carefully conceal it, as no one is ever admitted to it.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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It is not a very desirable trap, for the mopboard is scarcely ever wide enough to permit of a trap that the spook could get through in
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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