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

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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 could not see the duckboard in the dense gloom.

From Combed Out by Frederick Augustus Voigt

For four miles the path lay along a single duckboard track, capsized or slanting in many places, and the newly-made Nab Road, to which it led, was hardly better.

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

I stamped on the duckboard and kicked the sides of the trench and jerked my rifle up and down just to keep myself awake.

From Combed Out by Frederick Augustus Voigt

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