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Meanings of baseboard in English
Wooden or vinyl board covering the lowest part of an interior wall where it meets the floor.
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Examples for "skirting"
Examples for "skirting"
1
A moment later they were skirting the west side of the hotel.
2
We will only be skirting its edges; there will be water enough.
3
Some one came skirting along the wall; it was the schoolmaster, Aalbom.
4
I scurried along back roads, skirting the neighborhoods above the main village.
5
The brother and sister went out on the road skirting the fortifications.
1
If you do not find it there, examine the base or mopboard.
2
Evangeline kicked the mopboard, striking her toes against the molding three times in quick succession.
3
Will you-willyou go over there in the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard?
4
The slightest sound broke his sleep-thegnawing of a mouse behind the mopboard, or a change in the wind; and then insomnia seized upon him.
1
Sure, that ill-fitting portion of skirting board could merely be poor carpentry.
2
He looked down at the brand new trainers kicking against the skirting board.
3
She has been here before, and recognises a cigarette burn on the skirting board.
4
The paint is lifting from the wall and the skirting board is beginning to bulge.
5
Inverted gaslights stuck out of the skirting board, blue flames jetting down towards the painted floor.
1
He kicked at the floor molding.
Usage of baseboard in English
1
To either side of the shelving, lining the baseboard, were larger objects.
2
John's head struck the baseboard, and, for a moment he was stunned.
3
Below him, a framed photo of Katy lay angled to a baseboard.
4
Unseen by anyone, a mouse watched from a hole in the baseboard.
5
Within Ape House, faucets at various places near the baseboard sprang to life.
6
The shotgun skidded across the floor and ricocheted off a baseboard.
7
The baseboard moldings are carved and varnished and eighteen inches high.
8
It struck the baseboard with a thin clang and slid under the refrigerator.
9
He had crawled close to the baseboard of the room.
10
You want to feel a grinding going on between the spindle and the baseboard.
11
Fit up the baseboard with ten oak foot-rests 22 in.
12
So I lifted the baseboard, and this was behind it.
13
Two night-lights glowed near the baseboard, casting yellowish columns of light up the wall.
14
You might find that the ember sticks to the baseboard.
15
Then I picked up the Selectric's plug and stuck it in the baseboard socket.
16
It had been standing on end, and the pivoting baseboard had knocked it over.
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