Crossword clues for duckboards
duckboards
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (plural of duckboard English)
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A duckboard is a platform made of wooden slats built over muddy ground to form a dry passageway.
Usage examples of "duckboards".
In a corner, the duckboards were littered with goggles, eye-shields and gas-masks.
He stared in disbelief at the twisted duckboards, the fractured asphalt beneath his feet.
Then, winded from the convulsive back-thrust that had sent him there, he was stretched full length on the duckboards again.
It was not good to watch a friend die: Turner looked away, stared down at the ice-covered duckboards between his feet, his head sunk between hunched shoulders.
He lay cold, and decidedly uncomfortable, on the duckboards under the tarp.
Biggs held the flap of the tent open, and then lit his way along the duckboards through the orchard towards the mess.
Pray for it, my boy, Andrew answered, and, hampered by their clothing, they waddled down the duckboards, to where the Sopwiths stood at the edge of the trees.
The major has been asking for you, best hurry, sir, and then, as Michael started along the duckboards towards the mess, he called after him, How is she flying, sir?
The pilots of the squadron were scattered in dark groups of threes and fours amongst the trees at the edge of the orchard, talking softly and smoking the last cigarettes before take-off, when Michael came clumping down the duckboards, still buttoning his greatcoat and pulling on his flying gauntlets.
They were only soft at the bottom, where the duckboards were absent or broken.
It was three steps down from the trench itself, a deep hole in the ground, duckboards on the floor, a sacking curtain over the door.
They carried him away, bumping elbows against the crooked walls of the trench, slithering on the wet duckboards and keeping balance with difficulty.
The bone-deep ease of the bath made him realize how tired he was, how many nights he had lain on the hard clay, or on duckboards, and slept fitfully.
It must have been raining again because there was water under the duckboards and he heard the rats’ feet scuttling and the heavy plop and splash of their bodies as they slid off.
He left Mordaff squatting on the earth floor beside Ashton's body and fumbled his way back over the slimy duckboards toward the travel line, then forward again to the front and the crack of gunfire and the occasional high flare of a star shell.