deal-boardn.
= deal n.3 1; a thin board of fir or pine.
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quarter-board1355
deal1400
fir-deala1450
planchettec1450
crust1486
deal-board1568
slab1573
scabbard1635
scale1683
scale-board1711
planchet1730
shinbin1791
rack deal1808
rack1835
shinlog1842
slabwood1844
1568–9 in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) II. 284 One shippe of Brydges [Bruges] in Flanders, in the which is mastes, clappe-borde, deel-bordes.
1583 in Northern Notes & Queries I. 77 A new cheste of Deal-bourd.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 146 Deal-Boards from ten to twelve inches broad, and about ten foot long.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 86 Doors having Deal-Boards nail'd over them.
1883 C. Reade in Harper's Mag. July 208/1 He could see through a deal board.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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