单词 | dressing board |
释义 | dressing boardn. Now historical. A board on which something is treated, prepared, or dressed for use; spec. a kitchen table or surface on which food is prepared before serving; = dresser board n. at dresser n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > sideboard > [noun] dresser1352 dresser board1352 cupboardc1380 dressing board1380 dressing knife boarda1425 sideboard?c1663 buffet1718 abacus1785 credenza1834 1380 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1929) II. 268 (MED) Dressyngburd. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 131 Dressure, or dressynge boorde, dressorium, directorium. 1470 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 133 John Adames, Cooke,..hath his dressyng bordes..vpon the Comyn grond stretchyng in the hye strete viij fote. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clvii. f. clxxiii v/2 Aboue the great table, agaynste one of the Pyllers, was the Kynges dressyng borde, standynge full of vessell of golde and syluer. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Tajon A boord to cut flesh on, a dressing boord. 1609 in J. S. Moore Clifton & Westbury Probate Inventories (1981) 5 In the Kitchinge..two owlde dressinge boardes with a Dogge wheel. 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 159 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Puts it [sc. the whale's fat] upon the Bench or Dressing-board, where it is cut by others into less pieces. 1765 Reliques Anc. Eng. Poetry I. i. iii. 33 Sho laid him on a dressing borde, And drest him like a swine. 1814 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 24 Sept. A currier's elm dressing board and stone. 1879 P. A. Kemper Wonders of Flora xxii. 147 This method makes it necessary that the dressing-board be guarded against any movement. 1945 L. J. Kintziger Bay Mild xvi. 180 Bay jabbed his fish knife half way through the dressing board and glared out over the sand flats. 2008 P. C. D. Brears Cooking & Dining in Medieval Eng. 205 In the kitchen in the Blacksmiths' Company Hall in London..there was one dressing board 10 feet long by 17 inches wide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1380 |
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