Definition of Fireboards

1. Noun. (plural of fireboard) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fireboards

1. fireboard [n] - See also: fireboard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireboards

fireball
fireballer
fireballers
fireballing
firebare
firebares
firebase
firebases
firebird
firebirds
fireblast
fireblasts
fireblight
fireboard
fireboards (current term)
fireboat
fireboats
firebolt
firebolted
firebolting
firebolts
firebomb
firebombed
firebombing
firebombings
firebombs
firebote
firebotes

Literary usage of Fireboards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... paper for screens or fireboards; paper, antiquarian, demy, drawing, elephant, foolscap, imperial letter, and all other paper not otherwise provided for, ..."

2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"... on all paper hangings, or paper for screens or fireboards, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; on all blank or visiting cards, twelve cents per pound; ..."

3. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and ...by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry (1852)
"... note 3i) do. music with lines 10 rto, gilt or metal, not gold or silver 30 do. for screens or fireboards CO do. all other not enumerated 3^ do. counting ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1842)
"Paper Hangings, or paper for Screens, or fireboards, per cent Blank, or Visiting Cards,...per Ib. Playing Cards, per pack Asses Skin, and imitation thereof, ..."

5. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1888)
"... winter evenings and to aid in ventilation (no fireboards nor other devices to cover these in warm weather). A bathroom, with hot and cold water supply. ..."

6. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from by United States (1862)
"... not otherwise provided for ; paper hangings, and paper for screens or fireboards ; paving stones ; paving and roofing tiles and bricks ; pearl or hulled ..."

7. Pencillings by the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1853)
"In America they would paint such an old church white or red, shove down the pillars, and put up pews, sell the pictures for fireboards ..."

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