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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