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Fireboard

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A fireplace's mantel. Appalachia
  3. 3
    A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.

Etymology

From fire + board.

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