释义 |
▪ I. shelboard dial. [? f. shelf n.1 + board n.: cf. shelving n.] An additional framework fixed to the sides of a cart to increase its capacity.
1569in T. Phillipps Wills (c 1830) 84 All my ploughe tymber, and cart tymber, except shelbordes. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm vii. xvi. 662 All manner of Plow and Cart-timber whatsoeuer, as Beames, Heads, Skeathes, Hales, Spyndles, Shelboords, Cart or Wayne bodies, rings for Wheeles. 1852C. W. Hoskyns Talpa xvi. (1854) 137 A sack or two of Wheat that lay not very safely on the near-side shel'-board. ▪ II. shelboard, -brede obs. ff. shield-board. |