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Definition of Flashboard
1. Noun. Boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height.
Definition of Flashboard
1. n. A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
Definition of Flashboard
1. Noun. (American English) A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flashboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flashboard
Literary usage of Flashboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"flashboard Weirs.—A form of cheap open weir which has been commonly constructed
in the West is the open wooden frame and flashboard weir. ..."
2. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"flashboard Weirs.—A form of cheap open weir which has been commonly constructed
in the West is the open wooden frame and flashboard weir. ..."
3. Manual of Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1896)
"Open Frame or flashboard Weirs.—A form of cheap open weir which has been commonly
constructed in the West is the open wooden frame and flashboard weir. ..."
4. Negligence of Imposed Duties, Personal by Charles Andrew Ray (1891)
"... and it appeared that several years after the permanent structure of his dam
had been built, he used a flashboard on it for the purpose of storing water; ..."
5. Hydroelectric Developments and Engineering: A Practical and Theoretical by Frank Koester (1909)
"Another type of flashboard is of structural steel held in an upright position by
rods hinged below the center of the board. When the pressure of the water ..."
6. Design and Construction of Hydroelectric Plants: Including a Special by Rufus Charles Beardsley (1907)
"270 is a view of the entire flashboard mounted on the dam, and Fig. 269 a detail
of one section of flashboard. While possessing some very valuable features ..."
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