Crossword clues for baseboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baseboard \Base"board\, n. (Arch.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US finish carpentry interior decorating English) A panel or molding between the floor and the interior wall of a structure 2 (context US English) A similar panel at the base of a piece of furniture or equipment.
WordNet
n. a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor [syn: mopboard, skirting board]
Wikipedia
In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, mopboard, floor molding, or base molding) is a usually wooden board covering the lowest part of an interior wall. Its purpose is to cover the joint between the wall surface and the floor.
It covers the uneven edge of flooring next to the wall; protects the wall from kicks, abrasion, and furniture; and can serve as a decorative molding.
At its simplest, baseboard consists of a simple plank nailed, screwed or glued to the wall; however, particularly in older houses, it can be made up of a number of mouldings for decoration.
Plastic baseboard comes in various plastic compounds, the most common of which is UPVC. It is usually available in white or a flexible version in several colors and is usually glued to the wall. Vinyl baseboard is glued with adhesive and can be difficult to remove or to replace. It has a long lifespan, which can mean lower maintenance.
Wooden baseboard can be available in untreated, lacquered or prepainted versions. Prepainted baseboards can be made from a single piece or finger jointed wood, often softwoods, while hardwoods are either lacquered, or raw for staining and made from a single piece of wood.
Radiators are sometimes installed inside or in front of baseboards (baseboard radiators). These radiators rely on hot water as their heat source.
A baseboard differs from a wainscot; a wainscot typically covers from the floor to around 1-1.5m high (waist or chest height), whereas a baseboard is typically just up to 0.2m high (ankle height).
Baseboard can refer to:
- Baseboard - a type of wooden, plastic, MDF or Styrofoam trim installed along the bottom of a wall
- Motherboard - a computer component
- Base board - a type of heater, see Hydronics
- Base board - the wooden board that scenery and track is attached to in Rail transport modelling
Usage examples of "baseboard".
Desperate housewives have peeled and slit garlic cloves to release the odour, then put them in drawers, under cabinets and along baseboards all over the kitchen with some success as long as the odour lasts - about two weeks.
The rain trickles down through the house, and everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust.
I peered in and found Tommy on his hands and knees, touching up the baseboards with a brush and a can of white latex paint.
I wiped down the walls, scrubbed the baseboards and floors until the soapy water turned a frothy pink.
The baseboards and cupboard door, as well, were obviously scavenged wood from some lot or estate sale.
The window was trimmed with it, and the baseboards had once been the horizontal slabs for the horse stall.
The whole of it smelled like mildew, and I suspected at night wee creatures scuttled around the baseboards after all the lights were turned off.
I unscrewed the heater vent and tapped along the baseboards listening for hollow spots.
It was a brown room with tired umber paper on the walls and ceiling and bronze-colored curtains without luster over the windows and dirty beige baseboards with mouseholes in the corners, and Mayk would have said it felt like a room with a stiff in it.
The baseboard moldings are carved and varnished and eighteen inches high.
Seizing the alarm in both fists, Emory yanked it from the ceiling by its screws, hurled the squawking disk into a corner where it caromed off the baseboard, creased the refrigerator, kissed a table leg, and slid to a dead stop at the foot of his chair, its bleating remains silenced at last by one decisive plastic-spewing stomp.
I shone the flashlight all around the walls, and she pointed at the baseboard behind the door.
I went into the study, crouched down by the baseboard, and, at last, was able to open the gun box.
I tried the kitchen first, tapping along the baseboards for the sound of hollow spaces.
It may have taken me as long as a minute to realize what I was really seeing: wallpaper featuring red roses as big as cabbages against a field of black, babyshit-brown baseboards, trim and doors, and six chromos of little girls on swings, with mats of purple velvet, and with gilded frames which must have weighed as much as the limousine which had delivered me to this catastrophe.