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barnboard

American  
[bahrn-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈbɑrnˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

noun

  1. barnwood.

Etymology

Origin of barnboard

barn 1 + board

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Boyd had been in the thick of that business and knew that no one had been hurt except Barnboard Tam, whose horse had run away with him and brushed him off, a red-haired Absalom in homespuns, against the branches in Marnhoul Great Wood.

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