ˈdeal-ˈboard
[f. deal n.3 + board.]
= deal n.3 1; a thin board of fir or pine.
| 1568–9 in Burgon Life Gresham II. 284 One shippe of Brydges [Bruges] in Flanders, in the which is mastes, clappe-borde, deel-bordes. 1583 in Northern N. & Q. I. 77 A new cheste of Deal-bourd. 1667 Primatt City & C. Build. 146 Deal-Boards from ten to twelve inches broad, and about ten foot long. 1722 De Foe Plague (1884) 99 Doors having Deal-Boards nail'd over them. 1883 Reade in Harper's Mag. July 208/1 He could see through a deal board. |