Meaning of fireboard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
2. A fireplace's mantel.
   Appalachia
3. A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.

Examples

“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.”

“1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace”

“The wind whopped and spat into the chimney; and now and then a puff of wood-smoke blew out and mounted up along the blackened fireboard.”

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