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Definition of Fireboard
1. n. A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
Definition of Fireboard
1. Noun. A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fireboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireboard
Literary usage of Fireboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons in Psychology by Elizabeth Helen Hannahs (1908)
"I am thinking of a fireboard that I saw when I was a child. ... I. The picture
on the fireboard is a group of sensations, blues, reds, and grays, ..."
2. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1868)
"O, I tell you, sis, you never tasted of anything so good in your life as clams
roasted on a fireboard ! And he put some stones together in another place, ..."
3. Camp Craft: Modern Practice and Equipment by Warren Hastings Miller (1915)
"A drill socket of any hardwood, with a cup in it to take the top of the drill,
is next in order, and a fireboard of the same wood as the drill, ..."
4. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1884)
"For a stove with short horizontal smoke-pipe passing through a fireboard, ...
A smoke-pipe thus jacketed or fireboard so raised affords an efficient ..."
5. On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings by Robert Stuart (1845)
"The front of the fireplace is closed with a fireboard, in which is a hole to
admit the smoke-pipe. Wherever a stove is used in a closed room, great care is ..."
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