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Definition of Lapboard
1. Noun. Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk.
Definition of Lapboard
1. n. A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
Definition of Lapboard
1. Noun. A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lapboard
1. a flat board used as a table or desk [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapboard
Literary usage of Lapboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Joseph Brown Heiskell, Tennessee Supreme Court (1871)
"ID the language of the witnesses, Hammons "then pulled out eight hundred dollars
in Confederate money, and laid it on the lapboard. ..."
2. Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing by Linda J. Dorn, Cathy French, Tammy Jones (1998)
"Write the sounds you hear on your lapboard. Paul, come up and tell me what you
can hear. ... The rest of you can write it on your lapboard. ..."
3. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1907)
"A Light Portfolio If any sick or aged person in the household complains that a
portfolio or lapboard is too heavy for her when she wishes to write letters ..."
4. Young Englishwoman: A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty (1867)
"... and on the lapboard across her knees lies her work—a graceful cross in
perspective, put on cardboard in birch, shaded from faint buff to bistre, ..."
5. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, Carnegie Institution of Washington, American Bureau of Industrial Research (1910)
"... says, that the language imputed to him was used only by Mr. Robb, who accompanied
his profanity by levelling a lapboard at the head of the witness, ..."
6. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"The specimen might have been a lapboard, or even possibly a last for shaping
moccasin soles. End of wooden implement (pl. 84, 1); present length 14 inches. ..."
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