fireboard

fireboard

English

Etymology

fire +‎ board

Noun

fireboard (plural fireboards)

1. A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fireboard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)