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

The singers in this production are often walking across duckboards, like the ones in the trenches of Flanders.

From New York Times

BOHDANIVKA, Ukraine — The trenches, the dugouts, the duckboards, the wood-burning stoves, the cold and mud seem to hark back to the First World War.

From Washington Post

I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground.

From Washington Post

Another shed contains a thunderstorm, with lightning flashes, dark rumbles and water falling on the sodden duckboards at your feet.

From The Guardian

It meant three-quarters of a mile along an uphill road, heavily shelled; then there was a mile over the shell-hole country, where there were no landmarks or duckboards, or anything to guide you.

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