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ˈshop-board
[f. shop n. + board n.1]
1. A counter or table upon which a tradesman's business is transacted or upon which his goods are exposed for sale.
1524–5Rec. St. Mary at Hill 328 Paid for a shopp borde in partriches shopp in Estchepe, vj s viij d. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. iii. 345 When all these bookes of Exhortations and Catechismes, lie moulding on thy shop⁓board. 1705Dunton Life & Errors (1818) I. vi. 72 He may starve behind his Shop-board, for want of subsistence. 1861Sala Dutch Pict. xxi. 233 On every merchant's shopboard similar heaps..are tumbling out of similar sacks.
2. A table or raised platform upon which tailors sit when sewing.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet in Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 412 One seeing all sortes of his shreddes, would thinke he had robd a taylors shop boord. 1599Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday iv. ii. (1610) G 1 b, Enter Hodge at his shop boord, Rafe, Firke, Hans, and a boy at worke. 1762Foote Orators ii. (1780) 46 One day as I was sitting cross-legged on my shop-board,..I felt the spirit within me moving. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T., Toll-gatherer's Day, A dashingly dressed gentleman..from a tailor's shop-board.
3. attrib.
a1658Cleveland Puritan iii, With Shop-board Breeding and Intrusion. |