bargeboard
Meaning of bargeboard
noun
a board, typically an ornamental one, fixed to the gable end of a roof to hide the ends of the roof timbers.
mid 19th century: from mid 16th-century barge- (used in architectural terms relating to the gable of a building), perhaps from medieval Latin bargus ‘gallows’.
Information about bargeboard
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bargeboard is: bargeboards.
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Hyphenation of bargeboard
barge-board
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- bargeboard is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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