Crossword clues for floorboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
floorboard \floorboard\ n.
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a board in the floor.
Syn: floor board.
the floor of an automobile.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor. 2 The floor of a car. n. 1 Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor. 2 The floor of a car. vb. To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
WordNet
n. a board in the floor [syn: floor board]
the floor of an automobile
Usage examples of "floorboard".
Just as Ranger Denner had said, two thumb-size bullet holes pierced the floorboard near the accelerator, about four inches apart, and blood and tissue splattered the seat, dashboard and floor.
First I drummed a little and counted the knotholes in the floorboards.
Hudge rolled from the hammock screaming, banging around the room, his ironshod foot clattering down upon the floorboards.
Nikilo climbed the ladderlike stairs and soon the ancient floorboards overhead creaked with his footsteps.
Commander called, Longton came over and together the two officers lifted the red woollen carpet away from the wall to reveal the polished floorboards below.
A couple of minutes later Longton got the fright of his life as the floorboards suddenly flew up and amidst the cloud of dust the Commander appeared from below.
Only of someone coming on the pages, years from now, buried in the ground in a moistureproof container, say, or hidden under a random floorboard in the slum.
Even so, most of the older nomes preferred to stay in the sheds, or in the cozy gloom under the floorboards.
Floorboards black with age were either bleached and polished or replaced with gleaming new parquets, lovely Oriental carpets in pale pinks, tans, grays and yellow spread over them.
He had emptied his hiding place under the loose floorboard of all food, double-checked every nook and cranny of his bedroom for forgotten spell books or quills, and taken down the chart on the wall counting down the days to September the first, on which he liked to cross off the days remaining until his return to Hogwarts.
The clerks squeaked across the floorboards or bent over their desks, quills waggling briskly.
A floorboard in the hallway came loose, and I pulled it all the way off so I could reglue it.
Whandall waited until he was moving up the Deerpiss before he made the Ropewalkers and Millers get under the floorboards.
The great curve of his belly still rose whalelike out of the shadows, and the hand that lay slack on the floorboards near my foot could have cupped a cannonball with ease.
All the time when I was in their house, I kept on thinking that somewhere under the floorboards a corpse had been hidden, perhaps by his father, and covered with oilcloth, like the Moscow one, and surrounded with bowls of Zhdanov water.