fireboard
[ fahyuhr-bawrd, -bohrd ]
noun
a board used to close a fireplace.
Chiefly South Midland U.S. a mantel; mantelpiece.
Origin of fireboard
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How to use fireboard in a sentence
There was a great sea-chest under the eaves, and an astounding fireboard, with a picture of Apollo in his chariot.
Betty Leicester | Sarah Orne JewettThis cord was twisted once round the upper part of the drill whose lower point fitted into the shallow hole in the fireboard.
A Scout of To-day | Isabel HornibrookThe flat piece of spruce for your fireboard should be about two feet long and a little less than one inch thick.
On the Trail | Lina Beard and Adelia Belle BeardHe then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol, and removed the paper fireboard.
Moby Dick; or The Whale | Herman MelvilleCautiously he raised the fireboard from within and began to move it outwardly as though it swung on a hinge.
Wizard Will | Prentiss Ingraham
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