† purse-boardn. [after German Beutelbrett (1844 in the passage translated in quot. 1852)] Obsoleterare (in a pipe organ) the part of the soundboard upon which the purses are fixed.
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1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 50 That part of the bottom of the great sound-board, upon which these bags or purses are glued, is called the purse-board [Ger. Beutelbrett].