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duckboard

[ UK /dˈʌkbɔːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a boardwalk laid across muddy ground

How To Use duckboard In A Sentence

  • My first sight of a trench was of two greasy clay walls with a parapet on the top and duckboards on the bottom.
  • Sometimes there were duckboards around the lips of the huge shell craters.
  • Someone had rigged up a makeshift duckboard for him but it didn't reach quite far enough. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • The troops are staying in tents, on duckboards, and eating field fresh rations.
  • The descent was on a good track, past a nice farmstead, then a path through tufted grasses and a precipitous stretch right by the river that's made easy by very well engineered duckboards.
  • However, all these surfaces were covered with timber-framed duckboards and this limited the general surface inspection although sections of boarding were lifted - where possible and safe in order to identify the covering material.
  • Lucky are those who have old fashioned duckboards for laying atop the snow.
  • On a good day, the water in the trench bottom came to the tops of your boots; more typically it reached your knees or beyond, despite a double depth of duckboards laid somewhere in the depths of the mud.
  • The descent was on a good track, past a nice farmstead, then a path through tufted grasses and a precipitous stretch right by the river that's made easy by very well engineered duckboards.
  • My first sight of a trench was of two greasy clay walls with a parapet on the top and duckboards on the bottom with men in it not looking very happy because it had been raining a lot.
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