What's the difference between baseboard and mopboard?
Baseboard
Definition:
(n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) • snooc.ski , two-hour lesson £26 Book it: Peak Retreats has a week in a four-star self-catering apartment, based on five sharing, including Eurotunnel crossing, for £214pp Baseboarding, Whistler, Canada Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Bromley Sports Limited Given that snowboarding, which is essentially surfing on snow, was invented over 40 years ago, it’s surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to introduce front-lying bodyboarding to the slopes.
(2) Speaking to a handful of journalists at Sporting’s training field yesterday (including one pale, bearded specimen huddled into the corner of his office nearest the baseboard heater), Vermes recalled playing in a game in freezing rain at the Rutgers Bowl, before airily gesturing at the tundra beyond his window and saying, “this is nothing.” I expect him to wear one of those t-shirts with a shirt and tie printed on it for the final.
(3) above the floor were more effective in maintaining low airborne microbial populations than baseboard-level ports.
(4) With the new sport of baseboarding, offered in Whistler for the first time this winter, riders lie on an aerodynamic board to descend soft snowy pistes with plenty of room to manoeuvre.
Mopboard
Definition:
(n.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.