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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A wall-lining constructed of match-boards. Also called matched boarding.

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Examples

  • He saw the ghost of him on the match-boarding behind where the varnish had rubbed away.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • He saw the ghost of him on the match-boarding behind where the varnish had rubbed away.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She paused blankly and they all stood looking at a large and naked nail sticking out of the green match-boarding of the wall.

    The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952

  • The door may be weather-boarded to match the rest of the end, or covered by a few strakes of match-boarding put on vertically.

    Things To Make Archibald Williams

  • The châlet was equipped with a most attractive verandah; a hundred feet below stood a larger wooden building, covered with black felt and lined with match-boarding.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • Then with dexterous fingers my lady broke the seals of the packet and drew from it a few sheets of plain white cardboard and a thin piece of match-boarding.

    Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912

  • The counting-room was a cubicle contrived by enclosing a corner of the ground-floor with two walls and a ceiling of match-boarding.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • The walls were of lateral logs, and the roof was of a similar material, while the entire interior was lined with red pine match-boarding.

    The Heart of Unaga Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • The birch-log walls had been rudely panelled with match-boarding half-way up, which was a somewhat unusual luxury, but the half-seasoned boards had rent with the heat, and exuded streaks of resin to which the grime and dust had clung.

    Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905

  • Picture a great room, the walls of varnished match-boarding, the bare floor covered in patches by skins.

    Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

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