Beaverboard
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 23 08:36:06 CDT 2003
SYLLABICATION: bea·ver·board
PRONUNCIATION: bvr-bôrd, -brd
NOUN: A light, semirigid building material of compressed wood pulp, used for
walls and partitions.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally a trademark.
It's not clear to me yet why, but advertising has a prominent place in this
section of GR.
DM
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