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单词 throwboard
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throwboardn.

Brit. /ˈθrəʊbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈθroʊˌbɔrd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: throw v.1, board n.
Etymology: < throw v.1 + board n. In sense 2 after Welsh tawlbwrdd (13th cent.; apparently < Early Scandinavian: see table-board n. and compare the discussion at tavel n.1), reflecting reinterpretation of the first element as taflu, tawlu to throw (itself of uncertain origin).
1. The earthboard or mouldboard of a plough. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > mouldboard
reesteOE
shield-boardc1325
mouldbred1343
mouldboard1394
fenbrede?1523
breastboard1652
breastplate1652
earthboard1652
furrow-board1652
wrest1652
throwboard1725
ear1759
plat1765
mould-iron1807
turn-furrow1810
mould1859
moulding board1864
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Plough The Earth board, Mould board, Breast board, Throw board.
2. A board used in a game thought to resemble chess, draughts, or backgammon, associated with medieval Wales; a game played on this board. Later also: any of various other board games identified with this. Now historical and rare.
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1807 Lit. Panorama Feb. 1052 But, that this judge was not denied relaxation at other times, appears from his right to receive from the King a chess-board, or backgammon board; literally, a throw-board of the bone of a sea animal.
1841 Chess Player's Chron. 2 111 The facts thus elicited, as to the numbers of the men and the powers of the king, exhibit decisive points of distinction between Throw-board and Chess.
1892 All Year Round 2 Apr. 328 The game of throwboard being played with a black king and eight black men, against sixteen white men—a sort of monarchy-against-republic game of chess.
1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. 44 In Welsh tawl is a throw, and a tawlbyrdd in its literal sense is a throw-board.
1998 B. Cornwell Enemy of God 334 Dumnonia, in that summer, was like a giant throwboard and Lancelot had thrown his pieces well.
3. U.S. A board mounted vertically on top of one side of a farm cart or wagon, to ensure that harvested crops thrown in from the opposite side fall into the wagon box. Now historical and rare.
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1893 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 7 Dec. 948/3 We put an extra sideboard 18 or 20 inches wide on top of the wagon box on the side opposite the husker. It is called a ‘bump-board’, ‘bang-board’, ‘knock-board’, or ‘throw-board’.
1923 Sioux City (Iowa) Jrnl. 10 Nov. 3/2 A young man living southeast of here, had his left arm fractured when a throwboard on his wagon fell on him as he was getting ready to husk corn.
1967 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 3 Sept. 45/1 One side of the wagon is higher than the other. This is the throw-board or bang-board.
1995 Rural Heritage Summer 13/1 The worker shucks the ears of corn and throws them into the wagon box. The throw board keeps the thrown ears from sailing over the box.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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