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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 blight
  2. fire blights
  3. fire blindness
  4. fire block
  5. fire blocks
  6. fire board
  7. fire boards
  8. fire boss
  9. fire bosses
  10. fire box
  11. fire boxes

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