Meaning & use
Duckboards
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Boards or slats laid down to form a path across muddy or wet ground.
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Soldiers in the trenches relied on duckboards to keep their boots out of the mud.
The campsite had duckboards laid across the marshy trail to the lake.
A note on using this word
Duckboards became especially well known from their widespread use in the muddy trenches of World War I.
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