fireboard
Collocations
3ADJ.
great
VERB + FIREBOARD
blackened, iron, papered
PREP.
along, into
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noun
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.
1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
A fireplace's mantel.
A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.
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3I 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
Wiktionary1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
WiktionaryThe 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.
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