millboard

American  

[mil-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈmɪlˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

noun

Bookbinding.

1. a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.

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millboard British  

/ ˈmɪlˌbɔːd /

noun

1. strong pasteboard, used esp in book covers

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Etymology

Origin of millboard

First recorded in 1705–15; mill(ed) + board

Example Sentences

So the June rule ensures that any U.S. companies who want to use asbestos in all its nonbanned uses—products like reinforced plastics, millboard, floor tiles, and roofing felt—are subject to EPA review.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2018

In the packet of cards was a solitary one, larger than the rest, an expensive affair on thick, highly glazed millboard, bearing in gothic characters the name: Otto von Steinhardt.

From The Man with the Clubfoot by Williams, Valentine

A good way to prevent this is to make a millboard or thick brown paper shield with a part cut away to allow the neck to have a hold.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Petherick, Horace

But it was not until twenty years after this that any success was attained in the manufacture of asbestos millboard and paper, the commercial value of which is now assuming such large proportions.

From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Jones, Robert H.

The Hellesen dry cell is like the "E. C. C.," but contains a hollow carbon, and is packed with sawdust in a millboard case.

From The Story of Electricity by Munro, John