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Definition of Duckboard
1. Noun. A boardwalk laid across muddy ground.
Definition of Duckboard
1. Noun. One of a long series of boards laid as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Duckboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duckboard
Literary usage of Duckboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One of Ours by Willa Cather (1922)
"Gerhardt splashed out along the submerged duckboard. Claude took off his shoes
and cooled his feet in the muddy water. He wished he could ever get David to ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"Drainage of trenches: Well-constructed trenches are floored with a duckboard path
and under-drained by a gutter with occasional ..."
3. The Fourth Division: Its Services and Achievements in the World War by Christian Albert Bach, Henry Noble Hall (1920)
"The mud was so deep, due to excessive rains, that duckboards had to be built all
over the camp and the "duckboard" itself was adopted as the camp insignia. ..."
4. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1921)
"... changing direction every few paces, terminating at their lowest point in aV;
interrupted by sump holes for drainage, and floored by a duckboard path ..."
5. The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces by Elsie Janis (1919)
"Up on the side of a hill—all laid out with little duckboard walks, leading from
one cabin to the other—before dinner they took us into the schoolroom, ..."
6. Fighting the Boche Underground by Harry Davis Trounce (1918)
"These would be fired by any one stepping on the duckboard, and as there was no
other place to step in the trench, it was a case of Hobson's choice. ..."
7. Ranging in France with Flash and Sound by Jesse Rolen Hinman (1919)
"Hours seemed to have passed when he heard a sound that immediately claimed his
attention—a sound made by the duckboard as it oozed into the mud just outside ..."
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