Word Meanings - MOPBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

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• NAILLESS
  Without nails; having no nails.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• SKIRTING
  A skirting board. 2. Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.
• NAIL-HEADED
  Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. Nail-headed characters, arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded. -- Nail-headed molding , an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SKIRT
  1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle. 2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• FLOORAGE
  Floor space.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• FLOOR
  That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. A horizontal, flat ore body. Raymond. Floor cloth, a heavy fabric, painted, varnished,
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• BOARDER
  One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. (more info) 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
• BASEBOARD
  A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard , mopboard, and scrubboard.
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• FLOORER
  Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.
• NAILER
  1. One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker. 2. One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
• NAILERESS
  A women who makes nailes.
• BOARDING
  The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. 2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering
• NAILBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the nails.
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• TENAILLON
  A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• CHESSBOARD
  The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
• DOORNAIL
  The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."
• HOBNAILED
  See SHOE
• ABOARD
  On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
• BULLEN-NAIL
  A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• FORESKIRT
  The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. Shak.
• VERGEBOARD
  The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• TAILBOARD
  The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.