floorboard

[ flawr-bawrd, flohr-bohrd ]

/ ˈflɔrˌbɔrd, ˈfloʊrˌboʊrd /

any of the boards composing a floor.

the floor of an automotive vehicle.

floor(def 19).

Origin of floorboard

First recorded in 1880–85; floor + board

If she drew back from our floorboard, there was the tongue in her head to say it.

Dwellers in the Hills |Melville Davisson Post
You can get a clean round bullet-hole in glass, but not in a floorboard.

A Case in Camera |Oliver Onions
A little creaking of a floorboard, a vague, misty blur almost at his side, and still Lee saved his fire.

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch |Jackson Gregory
Tom jammed the accelerator down to the floorboard and the jet car fairly leaped ahead.

The Space Pioneers |Carey Rockwell

They drew up to it fast, but his foot automatically eased up on the floorboard pedal until the girl spoke sharply.

Double Take |Richard Wilson

floorboard

/ (ˈflɔːˌbɔːd) /

one of the boards forming a floor