floorboard en · NOUN
Etymology
From floor + board.
Meanings
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Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
There was a rat that lived under our duplex. […] It went in and out through a broken floorboard in the porch, and into our kitchens, but we didn’t believe in killing it.
1976, Vance Bourjaily, “All Quiet on the Middlewestern Front”, in Now Playing at Canterbury, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 364:
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The floor of a vehicle.
The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.
1999, Ernesto B. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, page 212:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| floorboards | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| floor-board | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (26)
ru полова́я доска́ (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · ota دوشهمه تختهسی (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · no golvplanke (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · hu padlódeszka (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · ro scândură de dușumea (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · cmn 地板 (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · tr döşeme tahtası (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · da gulvbræt (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · uk підло́гова до́шка (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · sv golvbräda (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · mi papatakahi (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · fr planche (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · ru полови́ца (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · unm pahsikaxkw (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · pon lohpwu (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · fi lattialauta (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · sv golvplanka (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · uk мости́на (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · no gulvplanke (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · es duela (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · pt assoalho (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · mi papatakatakahi (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · de Diele (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · de Dielenbrett (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · sv tilja (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor) · pl deska podłogowa (any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor)