flashboard

[ flash-bawrd, -bohrd ]

nounCivil Engineering.

a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.

Origin of flashboard

First recorded in 1760–70; flash + board

Words Nearby flashboard

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How to use flashboard in a sentence

The water poured over the flashboard with a splashing murmur at that distance, and ran down under the bridge in a rocky bed.
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Thus meditating he drew nearer to the place where the flashboard was down and the water poured into the rocky river bed.
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British Dictionary definitions for flashboard

flashboard

/ (ˈflæʃˌbɔːd) /

noun

a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity: Also called: stop log, stop plank

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