Lapboard

Word LAPBOARD
Character 8
Hyphenation lap board
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Lapboard"

What do we mean by lapboard?

A flat board held on the lap as a substitute for a table or desk. noun

A thin, flat board, sometimes cut out on one side to fit the body, held on the lap for convenience in needlework, shoemaking, and similar occupations. Also called lap-table. noun

A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors. noun

A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk. noun

Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk noun

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The word "lapboard" in example sentences

Height of the lapboard is usually the same as for armrests. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Last, but not least, there's the lapboard my grandfather made for my mother when she was 8 1926. ❋ James Gurney (2010)

Not bothering to seat himself again, he pulled up the lapboard while hovering overhead, then typed in the six-digit string that would allow Dana to enter a new course into the navigation subsystem. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had to search for the belt straps that held him in place, and it was another minute before he remembered how to open the lapboard. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Baptiste took a last glance at the section report on his lapboard, then pushed it away and carefully stood up, feeling sluggish against the pull of gravity. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of DUCES TECUM. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It had just reached the God-will-it-ever-burn stage, with smoke billowing over the lapboard fence into the neighbour's yard. ❋ Pawson, Stuart (1999)

Returning to his Morris chair and the redoubtable lapboard astride it, Grey resumed being the most successful and popular author of his age. ❋ May, Stephen J. (1997)

Inevitably, however, Grey turned to his writing duties, which he performed on a rugged lapboard that rested on the arms of a comfortable Morris chair. ❋ May, Stephen J. (1997)

She was wearing a nightgown hitched up above her knees, wide-spread thighs supporting a lapboard and pad upon which she was writing intently. ❋ Liddy, G. Gordon (1980)

Useful as this contrivance was for some purposes, on the whole it was not as convenient as a lapboard that could be held on the arms of a rocking chair, chiefly because the latter could accommodate several books at the same time and above all my big Greek lexicon. ❋ James Powell Cocke (1947)

It was long past midnight when I put aside the lapboard I had used to support all the volumes spread out before me and rose from my chair. ❋ James Powell Cocke (1947)

On a lapboard she smoothed out a double sheet of soft white buckskin; and drawing from a beaded case that hung on the left of her wide belt a long, narrow blade, she trimmed the buckskin into shape. ❋ Unknown (1921)

He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of _Duces Tecum_. ❋ James Joyce (1911)

Only once had he set Cropsie and his lapboard literature aside, and followed his own impulse. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

Jasper arose, put down his lapboard, shut his knife and with a serious air said to the old darkey. ❋ Opie Percival Read (1895)

It consisted of a small doorway in the front of the third storey, with a simple iron beam and pulley above, and the _lapboard_ merely a horizontal door hinged to the wall beneath, and raised or let fall by means of a sliding-bolt, which shot from the wall when there was occasion to put the apparatus of death in requisition. ❋ Various (1841)

The Leipzig Games Convention, the new Xbox 360 camera, more Wii pricing rumors, a compilation of compilations, and the return of everybody's favorite lapboard are reminding us all how quickly the summer is coming to an end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our first podcast of 2006 talks about DS sales, some major moves in MMORPGs and the snappy looking Phantom lapboard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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