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n. - A boardwalk laid across muddy ground.

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  • Henri swung himself out of the sea and rolled lengthwise onto the duckboard.
  • I pushed him off and he fell on the duckboard floor, staring up at me with wide, panic-stricken eyes.
  • To do that he needed duckboard—the long, wood-slatted platforms that were made to be laid along the bottom of trenches.
  • At the side of the duckboard, where it came closest to the canvas but had been hidden by the rope, both the wood and the canvas were deeply stained.
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