mopboard

[ mop-bawrd, -bohrd ]

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noun

mopboard

/ ˈmɒpˌbɔːd /

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1850–55, Americanism; mop ¹ + board, so called because it adjoins the floor surface, which is cleaned by a mop

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Will you—will you go over there in the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard?

Soon, too, she made out the insistent gnawing of a rat behind the mopboard.

There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard.

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