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'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 Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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

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

From Combed Out by Voigt, Frederick Augustus