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floorboard
/ ˈڱɔːˌɔː /
noun
one of the boards forming a floor
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of floorboard1
Example Sentences
His Malibu house was spared, thanks in large part to a retired firefighter friend who stayed in the guesthouse during the evacuation and managed to extinguish embers that had ignited the wooden floorboards.
A conservation project has worked on exposing the wooden floorboards and other areas of the venue.
The building’s units suffer from severe dampness and moisture accumulation, including under floorboards.
Ms Ramsden said her son, who has additional needs, had struggled with the bare floorboards.
Later, there were so many people in the auction room that punters were pushed under the stage and watched through cracks in the floorboards.
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When To Use
A floorboard is one of the usually wooden planks that make up a floor.It usually refers to a board of plywood used to make a subfloor—the rough floor beneath a finished floor. Many houses are constructed using floorboards to create a subfloor, which is then often covered with materials like hardwood, carpet, tile, linoleum, or some form of laminate flooring.The word floorboard means something else in the context of vehicles—it refers to the floor of a car or truck.This sense of the word is the basis of the slang verb floorboard, meaning to press a vehicle’s accelerator (gas pedal) as far down as possible (all the way to the floor) in order to go as fast as possible. The word floor is more commonly used to mean the same thing. Both terms are often followed by it, as in As soon as the light turned green, I floorboarded it so I could get way ahead of all the other cars. Example: I pried up a loose floorboard hoping to find treasure under, but there was just a lot of dust and dirt.
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