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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use..
1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
The wind whopped and spat into the chimney; and now and then a puff of wood-smoke blew out and mounted up along the blackened fireboard.
Use fire board when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fire board means A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use..
Common synonyms include chimney board, hearthboard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
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