duckboard
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- noun
- /ˈdʌkˌbɔrd/
- UK
- Scrambling up a ladder onto the relative safety of duckboard walkways above the 16-foot-deep basement pit where the palace was found, developers plan to preserve and make a public exhibit of it.
- duckboards sag
Examples
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The construction workers laid down duckboards to create a stable path across the wet field.
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Walking across the duckboards down to the fairy blue sea?
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The little white-and-black puppy sat on the duckboard flooring and stared at me.
Fiction book (2001) -
There were hard, narrow paths through the mud, and duckboards had been laid down, and we deployed rapidly.
Fiction book (1997) -
He aimed a kick at it, cursing, but it hid behind some duckboards.
Fiction book (1994) -
A London pub at lunchtime has a masculine air; there is an activity of elbows like bowstrings being drawn back at Agincourt; feet are on duckboards, and glasses are grenades in the hand.
Academic text (2007) -
As the rain fell heavily, we carefully walked along the duckboard to avoid the muddy ground.
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He felt secure walking on the duckboard that spanned the swampy area, keeping his shoes dry.
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Etymology
Duckboard comes from the simple parts duck ('a water bird') and board ('a plank of wood'), so a helpful image is a path of boards where 'ducks' walk over wet or muddy ground to keep dry. That's why a duckboard is a wooden or metal walkway placed over mud or water so people can walk without sinking or getting wet.