| 释义 |
ˈtea-board Now local.
A tea-tray, esp. a wooden one.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. lvii. (1760) II. 202 The coming of a servant with the tea-board prevented my presumption. 1771E. Haywood New Present 256 Tea-boards are cleaned by rubbing them well with an oily flannel. 1780Newgate Cal. V. 270 They doubled a silver tea-board tegether..and carried it away. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey vi, The teaboard at the top of the table.
Hence ˈteaboardy a. nonce-wd, like a tea-board.
1890Athenæum 1 Mar. 283/1 The hardness, smoothness, and laboured polish of the surface, almost fit to be called ‘teaboardy’. |