| 单词 | fallboard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfallboard fallboard n. †(a) a shutter (esp. of a window) which is hinged at the bottom (obsolete); (b) the hinged cover for the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > shutter fall window1422 lock1440 window?c1500 lid1535 winnock-bred1546 window lid1591 counter-window1600 shut1611 shuttle1614 window-broad1628 window-shut1649 window shutter1665 window board1683 shutter1720 fallboard1742 jalousie1766 storm shutter1834 rain door1867 amado1873 sunbreak1891 brise-soleil1944 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > hinged board fallboard1864 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xvi. 86 The Entrance [being] afterwards stopped with a Fall-board, so that no Pole-cat..can in the least molest them. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 281 A pair of fall-boards belonging to a window. 1840 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 606/2 She..shut the oaken shutters, or fall-boards of the windows. 1864 Law Times 6 Feb. 159/1 Each [pianoforte] bore on its fall-board the mark ‘Rolfe and Co., pianoforte makers, Regent-street’. 1905 Missionary Herald (Boston) Apr. (advt.) Mason & Hamlin mission organs... Height, 2 ft. 10½ in. (to top of fall-board when open, 3 ft. 7 in.). 1999 P. Straub Mr. X lv. 212 He pointed across the room to a white baby grand.., raced across the carpet, raised the fallboard, and struck the high E. < as lemmas |
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