duckboard

Underfoot, some trench interiors were floored with wooden walkways called duckboards.

The singers in this production are often walking across duckboards, like the ones in the trenches of Flanders.

BOHDANIVKA, Ukraine — The trenches, the dugouts, the duckboards, the wood-burning stoves, the cold and mud seem to hark back to the First World War.

I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground.

Another shed contains a thunderstorm, with lightning flashes, dark rumbles and water falling on the sodden duckboards at your feet.