pegboard

English

Alternative forms

• peg-board

Etymology

From peg +‎ board.

Noun

pegboard (countable and uncountable, plural pegboards)

1. A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.
2. A metal board attached to the base of a metal display unit (FSDU) from which shelves, hooks or bars are attached (when bars are attached, they subsequently have pegs clipped onto them)
3. A perforated form of hardboard.
   • 1962 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The New "Rheingold"”, in Modern Railways, page 28:

     […] the loudspeakers are concealed behind the pegboard roofing in the corridors, saloons and compartments.

Translations

a perforated form of hardboard

• Irish: pionnachlár m
• Maori: papa kōputaputa

Verb

pegboard (third-person singular simple present pegboards, present participle pegboarding, simple past and past participle pegboarded)

1. (transitive) To fit or furnish with pegboard.