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

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

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 Voigt, Frederick Augustus

He cast a long look at the reddening, lengthening landscape, and dropped down on the duckboard.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert

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 Rose, Geoffrey Keith

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 Rose, Geoffrey Keith