duckboard

American  

[duhk-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈdʌkˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

noun

1. a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.

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duckboard British  

/ ˈdʌkˌbɔːd /

noun

1. a board or boards laid so as to form a floor or path over wet or muddy ground

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Etymology

Origin of duckboard

First recorded in 1915–20; duck ¹ + board

Example Sentences

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duckboard

Miami was then a bustling pinelands town, and the region was primitive: few roads, duckboard walks between shanties, mules plowing in burlap "muck shoes."

From Time Magazine Archive

Shell-holes and trenches everywhere filled with water till choice of movement was confined to a few duckboard tracks.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose

I'd offer you our humble hospitality, but somebody got in here today and stole the duckboard I've been sleeping on, and I can't offer you the general's cellar door.

From More Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart

At some 'posts' there was nothing better to sit on than the muddy 'fire-step' or at best half a duckboard or an old bomb box.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose

I pawed the mud with my right in order to find the duckboard.

From Combed Out by Frederick Augustus Voigt