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Matchboard   Listen
noun
matchboard  n.  A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Matchboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... more, and white-washing and a lining with matchboard had completely transformed the three floors of the mill, a liberal allowance of a dark stain and varnish giving the finishing touches, so that in what had been a remarkably short space of time the ramshackle old mill had become a very respectable-looking observatory, only waiting ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn

... had come over Mr. Travers. Mrs. Travers, leaning her chin on the palm of her hand, stared at the bare matchboard side ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad



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