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fireboards

fireboards is the plural 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.

Questions about fireboards

What is fireboards the plural of?
Fireboards is the plural of fireboard.

Words near fireboards in the dictionary

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

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