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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skirting board
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And a more frantic presence was trapped behind the skirting board.
▪ I, whose family offer to bring the stepladder if I plan to point the skirting board?
▪ Nairn recommends coving up to skirting board height to make maintenance even easier.
▪ Other factors considered were how close to the skirting board and how far under beds the cleaners would go.
▪ The small space at the bottom will be covered by the skirting board.
▪ The window boxes were home-made, from pieces of skirting board begged from the builders.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skirting board

Skirting \Skirt"ing\, n.

  1. (Arch.) A skirting board. [R.]

  2. Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts.

    Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.

Wiktionary
skirting board

n. (context UK AU NZ finish carpentry interior decorating English) A panel, normally made of wood, between the floor and the interior wall of a structure.

WordNet
skirting board

n. a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor [syn: baseboard, mopboard]

Usage examples of "skirting board".

Around the skirting board and the interior panels of the door were a series of curious notches, apparently left by a gnawing mammal with powerful incisors.

He stowed the course back in its hidy-hole and replaced the skirting board.

And I can think of no household reason for a nail to be driven in at the top of the skirting board in that particular place.

As my head struck the floor it also struck some projection low down on the skirting board.

They'd called it the damp room since that first Sunday, though there was not a sign of rot from ceiling to skirting board.

The white undercoat was finished yesterday, and while I was at pottery Locke (GBH, spur painter) added a coat of magnolia to the walls and beige to the door, window ledge and skirting board.

There had been a closed door between her and most of the world for fourteen years, and right now she felt like a terrified mouse who has misplaced its hole in the kitchen skirting board.

The cat got it again, lost it again, emitted an angry snarl, batted it against the skirting board.

It had been on the table- -And was now on the floor, having skittered against the skirting board under a bookshelf when he'd knocked everything flying.

The bedside lamp was wired to a plug on the skirting board behind the bed, and the wire was two-strand, plastic coated, the strands spiralling around each other.

The junction box in the skirting board looked as if it had been damaged.

Lord Roke moved silently along the skirting board toward the door.