plyboard

American  

[plahy-bawrd] / ˈplaɪˌbɔrd /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. Also called blockboard.  a building material consisting of strips of softwood that are glued together in parallel layers between two sheets of veneer.

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Etymology

Origin of plyboard

First recorded in 1910–15; ply ² ( def. ) + board ( def. )

Example Sentences

Soon after, the plyboard installed over the front of Gunther’s was covered in messages scrawled in chalk.

From New York Times • May 28, 2017

The bride’s father, a carpenter, disassembled a greenhouse at work and saved supplies, including 2-by-6s and plyboard.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2016

Their first basketball hoop was a plyboard and a tire rim nailed to an oak tree.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2016

In a scruffy field not far from the morgue, there are mounds of freshly dug black earth, dozens of simple wooden crosses with plyboard signs; names and dates of birth scrawled in black marker.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2014

Everyone was either clustered around the stereo or the seven-foot-tall piece of plyboard, propped up on the lawn, which had been painted to look like the scoreboard.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia