单词 | hand board |
释义 | hand boardn. 1. Building. A small (usually square) board with a handle underneath for carrying plaster or mortar. Cf. hawk n.3, mortarboard n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > plasterer's tools > board or tray boss1542 hand board1688 hawk1700 spot board1877 spot1922 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 396/1 The Plasterers hand-board... These kind of Boards are..made either round or square. 1855 Liverpool Mercury 3 Aug. 10/1 Thomas Morecroft.., plasterer, was committed for trial for stealing..two trowels, a handboard, brush, and apron. 1899 Treat. on Archit. & Building Constr. II. (Internat. Corr. Schools) 138 A quantity of mortar is placed on the wooden hand board. 1908 J. P. Genthon Assistant Engineer vi. 20 Plaster... Slaked on a hand-board, just before using, with just enough water to make a paste that will not run. 1986 A. Limon in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) i. ii. 50 A straight edge or two, and a hawk or hand-board will be needed for holding the mortar when..pointing. 2. A type of tray, esp. a small wooden tea tray. Cf. tea-board n. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea tea-stand1697 tea-equipage1709 hand board1721 tea-things1747 tea-board1748 tea-ware1766 tea-tray1773 tea-set1786 tea-ladle1808 tea-service1809 tea-wagon1840 tea-ship1854 cabaret1856 tea-cosy1863 Norwegian kitchen1868 tête-à-tête set1870 tea-stall1889 tea basket1891 tea-pot stand1895 tea cart1934 tea-trolley1937 1721 True Inventory Sir J. Fellowes 21 in Particulars Estates South-sea Company I A Tea-table, and a Hand-board, and eighteen peices of China, six Silver Tea Spoons, and a Strainer. 1741 London Evening Post 9 May (advt.) Buys and sells all sorts of fine new and old China.., Tea tables, Hand Boards, [etc.]. 1800 Will in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeol. Soc. (1920) 20 173 I bequeath to my daughter Isabella Pennington my best red & white china & my mahoghany Hand-board. 1883 Bye-gones May 233/2 These [sc. biscuits] were ‘served’ to each of the parties attending the funeral..on a tray called the ‘Hand board’, or ‘Server’. 1957 Country Life 121 865 Tea-boards and hand-boards. 1957 Country Life 2 May 866/1 Small versions of tea-boards, known originally as hand-boards or waiting boards, were used by servants for handling small objects such as letters or drinks. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun] lecternc1325 pulpitc1390 desk1449 stage1483 anabathur1623 oratorio1631 ambo1641 tub1644 chair1649 anabathrum1658 minbar1682 ambon1683 hand board1734 rostrum1755 tub-pulpita1791 lutrin1837 prayer desk1843 wood1854 praying desk1906 1734 in A. D. Candler Col. Rec. Georgia (1905) III. 130 Part of the Twenty one Pieces of Mahogany, Ash, Sycamore, Ilex and Red Bay Timber the Growth of Georgia used in the Experiments for making Hand Boards &c. 1846 Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati) 6 Mar. 619/3 Behold the..awkward man arise and place his chair before him for his pulpit and hand-board. 1857 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. xx. 203 They drove a stake down, and nailed a board to it,..and this was my hand board. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1688 |
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