Contextualizebeta

beadboard

noun

Etymology

From bead + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as beadboard — “bead + board”

Definitions

  1. Wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or…

    Wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.

    • The aesthetic of the house is prim and country, with white beadboard knee walls around the first floor and pale flowered wallpaper in the Shaker-style kitchen.

  2. A construction material made from "beads" of expanded polystyrene compressed together.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beadboard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA