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lay-board Sc. and north. dial. Also laboard, law-board, etc. [? f. lay v.1 Cf. G. legebrett, Du. legbord, board for laying something on.] The board on which tailors iron their seams. (Cf. lap-board, s.v. lap n.1 9.)
1804Galloway Luncarty 57 (E.D.D.) His laboard gave, and gives, old bakers bread. a1813A. Wilson Poems (1876) II. 44 As soon's she reekt the sooty bield, Whare labrod he sat cockin'. 1829Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. 180 Afore I were a landless lady, I wad rather be a tailor's lay board. 1867Gregor Banffs. Gloss., Lay-buird. |