| 单词 | letter board |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletter board letter board n. (a) Printing a board on which type is placed; (b) a board containing letters, or to which letters may be fixed. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 Letter-Boards are Oblong Squares... They ought to be made of clean and well-season'd Stuff. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 181 We wash and clean our Letter-board. 1784 Morning Chron. 5 May A bellows press, a great number of chases, cases, letter boards [etc.]. 1854 T. F. Adams Typographia 256 The form is then laid with its face downwards on a letter-board covered with the press-blankets. 1920 Documents School Comm. City of Boston 1919 iv. 163 1 letter board cabinet. 1990 N. R. C. Leng Psychol. Care in Old Age v. 96 An alternative method of communication, such as a letter board. 2008 L. Dean Idea of Love xvii. 97 There was a plastic letter board on the wall..bearing the names of foreign currencies. < as lemmas |
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