noun
- wooden planks or slats laid over muddy or wet ground to provide a walkway
Usage: military; historical
Examples
- Soldiers walked carefully along the duckboards through the muddy trenches.
- The old duckboards creaked under their weight as they crossed the swampy area.
- Workers laid duckboards across the construction site to keep their feet dry.
- The museum displayed original duckboards used in World War I trenches.
- Rain made the wooden duckboards slippery and dangerous to walk on.
- Maintenance crews replaced the rotting duckboards with new planks.