deal board

English

Noun

deal board (plural deal boards)

  1. A light wooden board made of fir or pine.
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year:
      Some Houses were, indeed, entirely lock'd up, the Doors padlocked, the Windows and Doors having Deal-Boards nail'd over them, and only the Inspection of them committed to the ordinary Watchmen and Parish Oficers […] .
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 69:
      [T]hey were very much surprized to find, upon inquiry, that Pallet could not swim, it being as natural for a Dutchman, as a deal-board,to float upon the surface.
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