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▪ I. sounding-board1
[sounding vbl. n.1]
1. A board or screen placed over or behind a pulpit or similar structure in such a manner as to reflect the speaker's voice towards the audience; = sound-board 2.
1766Entick London IV. 18 A carved pulpit, a veneered sounding-board. 1784Cowper Task iii. 21 Since pulpits fail, and sounding-boards reflect Most part an empty ineffectual sound. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 500 The sounding-board and back are much carved; the front of the former bears the date ‘1634’. 1879J. C. Cox Ch. Derbysh. IV. 20 The sounding board of the pulpit, when in its old position, spoilt one of the capitals.
transf. and fig.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. vi. vi, So sings the prophetic voice; into its Convention sounding-board. 1876‘Ouida’ Winter City ix. 261 The more fanciful feeling which makes Nature a sounding-board to echo all the cries of men. 1890B. L. Gildersleeve Ess. & Stud. 370 A super-elegant sounding-board of a man.
2. Mus. = sound-board 1.
1776Burney Hist. Music I. 219 The lower part of the base of the sounding board [of the lyre]. 1801Busby Dict. Mus., Sounding-Board, in a harpsichord or piano-forte, a broad, thin board, horizontally situated, and over which the strings are distended. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3437, Pianoforte with patent tubular sounding⁓board. c1880Oxford Helps Study Bible 134 [The] ‘dulcimer’ being an instrument formed of strings tightly stretched..over a rectangular sounding-board or box.
▪ II. sounding-board2 rare—1.
[sounding vbl. n.2]
A board used to ascertain the depth of water.
1776G. Semple Building in Water 19 Sounding Boards..of Inch Plank 12 or 14 Inches broad, divided into Feet and Inches. |