Crossword clues for hardboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hardboard \hard"board`\ n. a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin to form sheets, used in construction and various other purposes; -- called also particle board and chipboard.
Syn: chipboard.
Wiktionary
n. A high-density chipboard.
WordNet
n. a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin [syn: chipboard]
Wikipedia
Hardboard, also called high-density fiberboard (HDF), is a type of fiberboard, which is an engineered wood product. This product is also known under Isorel or Masonite brand names.
It is similar to particle board and medium-density fiberboard, but is denser and much stronger and harder because it is made out of exploded wood fibers that have been highly compressed. Consequently, the density of hardboard is 31 lbs or more per cubic foot (500 kg/m³) and is usually about 50-65 lbs per cubic foot (800–1040 kg/m³). It differs from particle board in that the bonding of the wood fibers requires no additional materials, although resin is often added. The hardboard variety is made without resin. The HDF version is made with resin. Unlike particle board, it will not split or crack.
Hardboard has long been used in furniture, but it is also popular for use in the construction industry and with trades as a temporary floor protector. Hardboard has become less popular over recent years due to new environmental targets in the construction industry to procure more sustainable temporary protection materials.
Hardboard is produced in either a wet or dry process. The wet process, known as the Mason Method, leaves only one smooth side while the dry processed hardboard is smooth on both sides. Masonite is produced using the wet process only.
Usage examples of "hardboard".
I felt that I had only to look behind the frontages of the houses to discover that they were made of hardboard and plaster.
The garage walls were made from white trellis work fixed against the stilts, with hardboard backing.
Stilt walkers and jugglers, acrobats and dancers, gigants and pithkies, costumes and floats -- some of which even celebrate the revolution: hardboard mock-ups of armored cars with broom handles poking out the windows and people in real or fake militia uniforms trotting alongside.
Somebody violent and strong had driven in six-inch nails and connected hardboard panels to the window frames.
Aubrey paused before a door that was merely a dull veneered sheet of hardboard, and knocked.
It was a cleverly designed temporary structure supported by Roman columns made from hardboard faced with golden-foil.
The photographs were enlarged, hand-tinted and glued to hardboard sheets to be cut out as silhouettes.
She began loading it onto flat pieces of hardboard made by breaking a ruined painting into three parts.
The kitchens had been emptied of all the plates, and the hardboard fragments were her best approximation.
The wind was even louder now: the hardboard that had patched the broken window flew in with a clatter, and a thick stench of burning began to fill the dark space of the church.
Bent double and howling as I was they had me across the central room and through the other door and into a sparsely furnished office on the other side, where they dropped me on to a stool in front of a scuffed and seedy deal and hardboard desk.
His 9mm sounded like a cannon compared to the silenced weapon, and his bullets punched much larger holes through the hardboard and soundproofing material.