Fireboard
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fireboard is a noun meaning A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
Meaning
A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
More Meanings
- (Appalachia) A fireplace's mantel.
- A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.
Example Sentences
1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
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.
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.
Word Forms
- fireboards
Synonyms for fireboard
Depending on context, synonyms include hearthboard.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fire board, firescreen, firebox, sideboard, firebar, floodboard.
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