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fireboard

fireboard noun: a board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.

fireboard: a board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use
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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
    • A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation
  2. (Appalachia) A fireplace's mantel.
  3. A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.

Synonyms of fireboard

Forms of fireboard

pluralfireboards

Origin of fireboard

From fire + board.

Questions about fireboard

What does fireboard mean?
Fireboard means a board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
What part of speech is fireboard?
Fireboard is a noun.
What is the plural of fireboard?
The plural of fireboard is fireboards.

Words near fireboard in the dictionary

  1. fireblast
  2. fireblasts
  3. fireblende
  4. fireblight
  5. fireblights
  6. fireboard
  7. fireboards
  8. fireboat
  9. fireboats
  10. firebolt
  11. firebolted

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