Meaning of deal board | Babel Free

Definitions

A light wooden board made of fir or pine.

Examples

“Some Houses were, indeed, entirely lock'd up, the Doors padlocked, the Windows and Doors having Deal-Boards nail'd over them, and only the Inspection of them committed to the ordinary Watchmen and Parish Oficers […].”

“[T]hey were very much surprized to find, upon inquiry, that Pallet could not swim, it being as natural for a Dutchman, as a deal-board,to float upon the surface.”

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