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Definition of Duckboards
1. duckboard [n] - See also: duckboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duckboards
Literary usage of Duckboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"In- the weird light furnished by the bursting shells of the New Yorkers they went
forward, ropes lowering them down into1 the mud by which duckboards were ..."
2. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"... hundreds of rope cables across the morass upon which the duckboards were laid.
Over these improvised bridges a column of infantry quickly passed. ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"Supporting troops were on the move marching in Indian file along duckboards
leading to the front line or standing in groups under the shelter of sunken ..."
4. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1919)
"There is literally nothing but camp in the immediate vicinity—no town, no hills,
no trees, nothing but barracks, tents, duckboards and dust—or mud. ..."
5. Our Greatest Battle (the Meuse-Argonne) by Frederick Palmer (1919)
"They took duckboards from the trenches and threw them over the stretches of barbed
wire which protected the Wood where the swamps did not. ..."
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