fireboard
nounEtymology From fire + board.
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A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
- 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
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- 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.1918, Melville Davisson Post, “chapter 2”, in Uncle Abner:
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Appalachia A fireplace's mantel.
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A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.