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fire-board

fire-board is the alternative form of fireboard.

Meaning of fireboard

Noun

fireboard (plural fireboards)

  1. A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
    • I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  2. (Appalachia) A fireplace's mantel.
  3. A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.

Forms of fire-board

pluralfire-boards

Questions about fire-board

What is fire-board the alternative form of?
Fire-board is the alternative form of fireboard.

Words near fire-board in the dictionary

  1. fire-bellied newt
  2. fire-bellied newts
  3. fire-bellied toad
  4. fire-bellied toads
  5. fire-blight
  6. fire-board
  7. fire-boards
  8. fire-bote
  9. fire-botes
  10. fire-breather
  11. fire-breathers

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