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floorboard

noun

Etymology

From floor + 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 floorboard — “floor + board”

Definitions

  1. Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.

    • There was a rat that lived under our duplex. […] It went in and out through a broken floorboard in the porch, and into our kitchens, but we didn’t believe in killing it.

  2. The floor of a vehicle.

    • The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.

  3. To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the…

    To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.

    • I floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.

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